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Douglas Dunlop, b. ?, d. ?, Scottish teacher and missionary in Egypt.

• Douglas Dunlop — Scottish teacher and missionary. In the 1890s consultant of the Egyptian minister of education. Founder of the Dunlop system.

Dunlop, who came as teacher to Egypt, was in the 1890s adviser to the Ministry of Education. Dunlop, even after thirty years in Egypt, did not learn Arabic, and was said to have little sympathy for the Egyptians.

Sir Evelyn Baring (later the Earl of Cromer

He was entrusted to modernize the Egyptian educational system. He was suggested for this task by his former tennis partner, the British High Commissioner Lord Cromer. The until today in Egypt existing educational system is called the Dunlop system. 1919 Dunlop quitted his service. Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917) was a British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Literature

Donald Malcolm Reid, Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, My Diaries, entries for 1906 (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed)