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The British Imperial-outpost phase of Victoria College ended abruptly in 1956, the year that began with the dissolution of Anglo-Egyptian cooperation and saw the Suez Crisis in October. The entire British faculty was fired, including then headmaster Herbert Barritt. [2]
One of Alexandria's noted Anglo-Egyptians, Charles R. Lias (a graduate of Marlborough College and King's College, Cambridge) became Victoria College's first headmaster, receiving 500 pounds per annum.
Under the leadership (1901 – 1922) of its first headmaster, Charles Lias of King's College, Cambridge University, Victoria adopted the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board Examination, the qualifying exam for English medical and engineering schools as well as for Oxford and Cambridge.
heyday in the first half of the twentieth century, Victoria College acquired a legendary status as a unique example of Britain's supremacy not only in Egypt, but in the region as a whole. Such an achievement was all the more remarkable in that during all the years of British rule France's pre-eminence in education and culture remained second to ...
May 9, 2022 · While it has waned in influence and educational standards, Victoria College’s legacy lives on. During the early 20th century, the school housed and raised a vast list of alumni that would later shape Egypt, and the world. Born Michel Demitri Shalhoub in Alexandria, Omar Sharif is one of Egypt’s most legendary actors.
Jan 12, 2003 · This book is at once the history of a remarkable and fascinating phenomenon―a British-style public school rooted in Egyptian soil boasting such alumni as King Hussein of Jordan, Omar Sharif, and Edward Said―and a reflection of the spirit of Alexandria during the first half of the twentieth century.
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In a series of colorful sketches, backed by plentiful quotation from documents in the school archives, a series of engaging and distinguished characters come to life, not least Victoria's first two...
