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educated at Eton and Trin. Coll., Canib, Entered the Diplomatic 

 Service, 1885. Attache to the British Agency at Cairo, 1886. Entered 

 the service of the Egyptian Government, 1890, as Controller of Direct 

 Taxes, and Under-Secretary for Finance, 1892. Became Adviser to 

 the Ministry of the Interior, 1894, and Financial Adviser, 1898— 

 1904. " Gorst," said The Times, " had almost a genius for finance, 

 and by common consent he had no superior among the numerous 

 able Englishmen who have handled the financies of Egypt," He was 

 made C.B. in 1900, and K.C.B. in 1902. Married, 1903, Evelyn, d. 

 of C. D. Rudd, of Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, by whom he leaves 

 a daughter. He held the 1st class of the Medjidie and Osmanieh 

 orders, was Secretary of Legation in H.M. Diplomatic Service, 1901, 

 Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1904—1907, and in 

 1907 was elected to succeed Lord Cromer as British Agent and 

 Consul General in Egypt. The 7Vwies, July 13th, 191 1, in the course 

 of a long obituary notice, says of his Egyptian administration : " Soon 

 after his appointment he encountered a series of difficulties which 

 eventually involved him in severe criticism both in England and in 

 Egypt. His policy may not always have been in every respect 

 judicious, but like many another officer of State, he had to bear in 

 silence the blame for conditions he had not created and for acts for 

 which he was not always primarily responsible. . . . Had Sir 

 Eldon Gorst lived he would at no distant date have reaped, in the 

 general restoration of confidence in his quiet and signal ability, the 

 reward to which he was undoubtedly entitled." 



Canon Sir James Erasmus Philipps, Bart., died Feb. 



21st, 1912. Buried in the Cloisters, Salisbury. l]orn October, 23rd, 

 1824. Only son of Rev. Sir James Evans Philipps, twelfth baronet» 

 whom he succeeded, 1873, as thirteenth baronet and head of the ancient 

 family of Pliilii)ps, of Picton, Pembrokeshire, the baronetcy having been 

 created in 1621. Ch. Ch., Oxon, B.A. 1846 ; M.A. 1847. Deacon, 1848 ; 

 priest, 1850 (Sarum). Curate of West Grimstead, 1848, and afterwards 

 of Alderbury and Wilton. Vicar of Warminster, 18")9— 1897, when he 

 resigned and retired to live at Salisbury. Prebendary and Canon of 

 Salisbury, 1870. Proctor in Convocation, 1S74 — 8"). Rural Dean of 

 Heytesbury, 189.")— 99. He married, in 18r)9, the Hon. Mary Margaret 

 Best, eldest d. of Rev. the lion. Samuel Best, and sister of the fifth 

 Baron Wynford. Five .sons and three daughters survive him. The 

 eldest son was M.P. for Pembrokeshire, 189S to 1908, when he i)ecame 

 Lord St. Davids; the second, Col. Ivor Philips, D.S.O, of Cocheston 

 Hall, Pembrokeshire, M.P. for Southampton since IJiOfJ ; the third, Sir 

 Owen Cosby IMiilipps, K.(*. M.( J., M.P. for Pembroke and llaverfonlwest, 

 190f) to 1910, is chairman ot tin- Ivoyal Mail Steam Packet Co., the 

 r>ritis]i an. I AtVicaii Steam Navi-at Imh (",»., an. I lli^ \\\^lv \)r\n\^Avv ,k 

 Co. 



A strong i/iberal and lli-cli ( 'liiirclMnaii, and a man i)f •■xtraordinary 

 energy and doL^^^cl jmts.'x .iMncr, tlie .^cr-'at work of liis life was the 

 foui\(lation of the missionary ('oll«>ge of S. Boniface, at Warmin.ster, 



