Sherif Sabri Pasha

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Biography

He was educated at Khedivial School of Law, in Cairo.

He was born in 1895, in Cairo. His other sister was Amina Sabri.

In 1917, he became a member of Al Ahly and designed the club’s first logo.

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Al Ahly’s first logo designed by Sherif Sabri Pasha

On 30 September 1946, Sherif Sabri Pasha was asked to become Prime Minister and head a new cabinet.[2] However, he never became premier and Ismail Sidqi Pasha remained Prime Minister until 9 December 1946.

Sherif Sabri Pasha headed the Royal Egyptian Geographic Society from May 1946 till March 1955.[3] Like his sisters Nazli and Amina, he was a grandson of Egypt's three-time prime minister Mohamed Sherif Pasha who was of Turkish origin,[4] as well as a great-grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte's colonel Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi ( Joseph Anthelme Sève).[5]

In 1922 he married Naila Khanum (1895-1933), only daughter of Adly Yeghen Pasha by his wife, Zainab Khanum. They had one son and two daughters.

Positions

  • Director-General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1925-1929).
  • Under-Secretary of State (1929-1933).
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (1933-1936).
  • Member of the Regency Council (1936-1937).
  • President of the Royal Egyptian Geographic Society (1946-1955).
  • President of the Supreme Council of the Arab Museum.
  • President of Egyptian Shipping Company.
  • President of Egyptian Construction and Engineering Company.
  • President of Nile Insurance Company.

See also

References

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Political offices
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Minority of King Farouk I
Regent of Egypt
1936 - 1937
with Prince Muhammad Ali Tewfik
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