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Mr. Edgar Vincent, Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government, 1883. Creator: Unknown.
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Mr. Edgar Vincent, Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government, 1883. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Lafayette. 'Mr. Edgar Vincent has but just completed the twenty-sixth year of his age...He rowed in the Eton eight at Henley in 1874, when the strain of severe rowing, at the early age of sixteen, brought on weakness of the chest and heart, and he was obliged to travel during three successive winters in the South of Europe and in India. In 1876-1877, being in India, he worked with characteristic zeal in the relief camp during the Madras Famine. He was present at the great Durbar [in] Delhi, when the Queen of England was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877...He was gazetted as a second lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, Oct. 31, 1877. In the interval between passing the Army examination and being gazetted to a regiment, [he] had presented himself for examination for the newly-created student-dragoman service, and had passed first out of 400 candidates...[He] published, conjointly with Mr. Dickson, a "Handbook of Modern Greek"...he was for some time acting military attaché in Constantinople...In the following year, 1881, he was appointed assistant to her Majesty's Commissioner for the evacuation of the territory ceded to Greece by Turkey'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
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HRM25A50_245
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6,1Mo (575,9Ko) / 11,0cm x 14,0cm / 1296 x 1648 (300dpi)