The Sphinx, Vol. 13, No. 196

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THE SPHINX
March 10, 1906.
SOCIETY IN EGYPT.
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Lord and Lady Meath have arrived in Egypt this last week. Lord Meath who is in his sixty-fifth year has for many years been actively engaged in social and philanthropic work, and among other posts he holds the arduous one of President to the Church Army of which the Rev. Wilson Garble is the able secretary. Besides being Earl of Meath he holds the titles of Baron of Ardee, Ireland and also Baron of Chaworth, Eaton Hall, Hereford, and he owns property to the extent of some 30,000 acres. He started life as clerk in the Foreign Office in 1863, but five years later he exchanged into the Diplomatic Service, and served in turn at Frankfort-on-Main, Berlin, the Hague and Paris. In 1874 he became the first Hon. Secretary to the Hospital Saturday Fund, and in 1879 he also took a leading part in the formation of the Young Men’s Friendly Society. He was the founder of the Metropolitan Public Garden Association, and the first President to the British College of Physical Education.
Uganda, and British Central Africa), and he also sat as Judge in Arab matter's on the highest Judicial Tribunal of II. H.the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Sir William Maurice de Bunsen, K.C.V.O., C.B., British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Lisbon, is expected to arrive in Egypt shortly. Sir Maurice de Bunsen is son of the late Ernest de Bunsen of Abbey Lodge, Regent’s Park and entered the Diplomatic Service at the age of 25. In 1879 he was appointed third Secretary to the Legation at Tokio, four years later he became second secretary, and in 1891 Secretary of Legation. From Tokio he went to Siam as Consul-General and after three years service there was appointed secretary of H.M. Embassy at Constantinople. In 1902 he became Secretary of H.M.Embassy and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris and he held that post until last year when he went to Lisbon to take up the appointment which he now holds.
work and the lives of the poor women folk of London, and it is in consequence of her having overtaxed her strength that she is now undergoing a rest cure in Helouan.
Among the latest arrivals in Cairo are Professor and Mrs. Goldmann, whose wedding only took place on the last day of February at Bingham, Melcombe. The Professor is a very well known German surgeon of the University of Freiburg, Baden ; his bride was Miss Lorna Bosworth Smith, the daughter of Mr. Reginald Bosworth Smith late assistant-master of Harrow, who has written books on Mohammed and Mohammedanism, Carthage and the Carthaginians, the Eastern Question, Uganda etc. Professor and Mrs. Goldmann intend visiting Greece after leaving Egypt.
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Lord Meath was elected Alderman of the London County Council in 1889, and was the first chairman of the Park’s Committee. Me was the j first president of the Church Reform Association, as well as the Dublin Philanthropic Reform Association, and it was he who founded the Lad’s | Drill-Association. He has published many books and pamphlets on philanthropic subjects, and is one of the greatest social reformers of the day. He owns a beautiful place in Bray and another in Rathdrum, and his English country home is in Ottershaw, Chertsey. Lady Meath was Lady Mary Jane Maitland, daughter of the 11th Earl of Lauderdale. Since arriving in Alexandria Lady Meath has been taking great interest in the M. C. L. Industrial School for the Blind of which institution she is the foundress and mainstay. Lord Meath has been spending a few das at the Savoy, Cairo, but has now returned to Ramleh.
Lord Wolverton .who is expected in Egypt shortly is the fourth holder of that title which was created in 1869, and he succeeded his brother in 1889. He acted as Lord-in-Waiting from 1892-96, and served with the Imperial Yeomanry during the South African War. His marriage to Lady Edith Ward, sister of the present Earl of Dudley was one of the events of the year 1895.
His Honour Judge Bettes worth Piggott, who has been Assistant Judge to His Majesty’s Consular Court of the Sublime Ottoman Porte since 1904,is at present paying a'judicial visitto Egypt. He is the second sen of Fraser Pigott J.P., of Fitz-Hall, Sussex and after studying at Middle Temple for four years was called to the Bar in 1888. He practised in London and on the South-Eastern Circuit and is a member of the Sussex, North London, and Middlesex Sessions and the Central Criminal Criminal Court. He has appeared in several sensational cases, including the trial of Cater for threatening to shoot her late j late Majesty and also in the Regent’s Park murder case.
In 1896 he was appointed H.M. Judicial Officer and Vice-Consul of the British Central Africa Protectorate for which he organised a most successful judicial system and two years later he was made Chief Judicial Officer. Judge Piggott served as a volunteer during the native”wars of 1894 to 1898 and received the Central African medal and clasp and from 1901 to 1904 he was Senior Judge for Zanzibar. He sits in Appellate Jurisdiction as Resident of His Majesty’s Appeal Court forEastemAfrica(the Protectorate of East Africa,
Sir Richard Harington who is staying with Lady Harington at the Savoy Hotel, had made his name before he succeeded to the title on the death of his cousin in 1877. His father was the Rev. Richard Harington D.D., Principal of Bra-senose College, Oxford, and Sir Richard entered upon his university career with a Slade scholarship at Christ Church. He took a first class degree in Law and Modern History,and was called to the Bar in 1858. In 1871 he was appointed Police Magistrate of Hammersmith and Wandsworth, and the following year he became Judge of County Courts and later on Chairman of the Herefordshire Quarter Sessions and Count}' Alderman. His son, who is named after him, is Judge of the High Court, Calcutta.
Sir Alfred Cooper who is on his way to Egypt and the East is well known for his connection with the tea trade, being chairman of one of the largest tea firms in the city. He was knighted during the South African War in recognition jf his services in maintaining a private military hospital at Surbiton as an adjunct to the Princess of Wales’s hospital ship.
Mr. Edward Percival Foster, C.M.G., and Mrs. Foster are among the latest arrivals in Cairo. M r. Foster is a son of the late Major-General E.H.H. Foster of the 12th Regiment and 18th Royal Irish Regiment. He qualified for the India Public Works Department at the Thomason College, Roorkee, India, and, having become a third grade executive engineer, was appointed to the Irrigation Service, for which he did excellent work for a period of twelve years, at the end of which he was selected by the Egyptian Government for service in this country’s Irrigation Department. In October 1892 he became Inspector General of the Irrigation Service of Lower Egypt and after holding that appointment for three years resigned in order to take over his present post of Managing Director of the Societe Ano-nyme du Behera. He was created C.M.G. in 1898 and holds the decorations of the 2nd class orders of both the Osmanieh and Medjidieh.
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Among those staying at present at the Tew-fik Palace Hotel, is Miss Carlile, sister to the Rev. Wilson Carlile, whose work with the Church Army is so well known. Miss Carlile takes a very great interest in her brother’s works, and is indefatigable in carrying forward his labours. She interests herself especially in all the social
Mr. and Mrs. James Henry Masson are back in Cairo at the Ghezireh Palace Hotel for the rest of the month after a very pleasant trip up the Nile. The\' will proceed to Athens and Constantinople early in April.
Mr. McLaren, of the well-known Leeds firm of engineers, Messrs. J. and H. McLaren, and Mrs. McLaren are staying at Shepheard’s Hotel, as also are Miss McLaren, Mr. II. and Mr. R. J. McLaren, and Mrs and Miss Berry, of Leeds.
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Many habitues of the Savoy Hotel will regret the departure of Mrs. Armstrong, who has been so genial a hostess ever since her arrival here last Decembei, and who left forLondon last Monday. Other departures from the Savoy included Mrs, and Miss Smart, who spent several weeks in Cairo, and on Monday Mrs. Freeman will leave us. Mrs. Valentine Smith and Miss Ambridge have taken up their quarters at Mena House Hotel, where they will remain until the 19th inst. when they leave for Monte Carlo. Mr. Mrs., and \l iss Lea Smith leave the Continental Hotel for England on Monday.
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Mr. Shedden, who represents the “African World and Cape-Cairo Express” is staying at the Bristol Hotel, where he will remain until the 26th inst., on which date he expects to leave for L >ndon.
The following is an extract from a letter received from Mrs Freeman, who is so much interested in philanthropic work both at home and here in Egypt :■—- “Many of your readers may be glad to hear of an undertaking just started in Ramleh, near Alexandria, which will conduce to the rest and comfort of many weary workers all over Egypt, who are unable to go home or to Europe for their much needed rest. Four years ago Miss Van Sommer bought a piece of ground overlooking the sea and built there a Home, of Rest for English missionaries and workers. Till then there had been nothing of the sort for the English in Egypt, and I think that many of our country people who have spent their winter in Egypt, might like to send a little help to further this effort for the comfort and rest of those who work all the year round in the heat of the day for the good of the country and the futherance of Christianity. Any gift may be sent to Miss Van Sommer, Fair Haven Account, Anglo-Egyptian Bank, Alexandria.”