Egypt
Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt (the job formerly held by Lord Cromer) and of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1911–1914, during the formal reign of Abbas Hilmi II as Khedive (nominally Ottoman monarch) of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, of the Sudan, of Kordofan and of Darfur).
Kitchener was created Earl Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, on 29 June 1914. Unusually, provision was made for the title to be passed on to his brother or nephew, since Kitchener was not married and had no children. He was eventually succeeded by his older brother, Colonel Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener.
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“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
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‘Way down in Egypt land,
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