Tigrane Pasha

{{Infobox Officeholder

| name = Tigrane Pasha

| native_name = {{Nobold|{{lang|ar|تكران باشا}}}}

| image = Tigrane Pasha. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and for a time Prime Minister.png

| office = 9th Foreign Minister of Egypt

| monarch = Mohamed Tewfik Pasha

| term_start = 14 May 1891

| term_end = 15 April 1894

| predecessor = Zulfikar Pasha

| successor = Mostafa Fahmy Pasha

| birth_date =

| birth_place =

| death_date = 27 July 1904 (aged 57)

| death_place = Evian-les-Bains, France

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Tigrane Pasha ({{langx|ar|تكران باشا}} (Dikran) (d. 27 July 1904, Evian-les-Bains) was an Egyptian-Armenian politician and the ninth Foreign Minister of Egypt. He served as Foreign Minister from 1891 to 1894, under three Prime Ministers.

Career

Tigrane was a nephew of the powerful statesman Nubar Pasha. He received a European education, and was less than fluent in Arabic and Turkish.{{cite journal |title=Obituary: Tigrane Pasha |journal=The Times (London) |date=5 August 1904 |issue=37465}} In 1865, his uncle appointed him to the railway administration. In 1878, he was secretary general of the Council of Ministers during his uncle's first term as prime minister.{{cite book |last1=Hunter |first1=Robert |title=Egypt under the khedives, 1805–1879: from household government to modern bureaucracy |date=1999 |publisher=AUC Press |pages=170, 208}}

References

Category:Egyptian people of Armenian descent

Category:Ministers of foreign affairs of Egypt

Category:19th-century Egyptian people

Category:Armenians from the Ottoman Empire