Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . e a study of militaryoperations. From 1872 to 1876 he wasprivate secretary of the Earl of North-brook, who was then Governor-Generalof India. In 1877 he was appointed Com-missioner of the Egyptian Public efficient service on this board at-tracted wide attention and on the abdica-tion of Ismail, the Khedive of Egypt, hewas made Controller-General. Afterthree years spent in India (1880-1883),he returned to Egypt as agent and con-sul-general. On his arrival in Egypt h
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . e a study of militaryoperations. From 1872 to 1876 he wasprivate secretary of the Earl of North-brook, who was then Governor-Generalof India. In 1877 he was appointed Com-missioner of the Egyptian Public efficient service on this board at-tracted wide attention and on the abdica-tion of Ismail, the Khedive of Egypt, hewas made Controller-General. Afterthree years spent in India (1880-1883),he returned to Egypt as agent and con-sul-general. On his arrival in Egypt hefound political conditions in a deplorablestate. He proceeded to organize tliegovernment, placing internal conditionson a sound basis. He also reorganizedthe army. Through his skill in diplo-macy, he was of great assistance to Lord CROMLECH 203 CBOMWELL Kitchener in the conquest of Sudan. Hewas made a baron in 1892 and an earlin 1901. In his later years he was aminister in the diplomatic service. Hetook a prominent part in the negotiationsleading up to the Anglo-French Declara-tion of April 8, 1904, by which France. EARL CROMER acceded to the recognition of Englandscontrol of Egypt. Before his death hewas chairman of a commission appointedto investigate the Dardanelles published writings include ^StaffCollege Essays, The War Game,Modem Egypt, Ancient and ModemImperialism, and Political and LiteraryEssays, the third series of which waspublished in 1916. He died in 1917. CBOMLECH, an erection consistingof two or more stones standing likepillars, with a large flat, or rather aslightly inclined one, placed upon the top,so as to make the whole present a ruderesemblance to a table. Two fine crom-lechs exist at Plas Newydd in Anglesea;others, less notable, are scattered throughWales; they exist also in Scotland,Jersey, Brittany, and throughout theCeltic area. Formerly they were gen-erally held to be old altars for opinion holds them to have beensepulcher
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