Sir John Eldon Gorst was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was British Consul-General in Egypt from 1907 to 1911.
Political cartoon published in the Cairo Punch, showing Sir Eldon Gorst, reclining and holding strings attached to puppets representing Egyptian ministers
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, was a British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator. He served as the British controller-general in Egypt during 1879, part of the international control whi