Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (born 1830)

Isma'il Pasha of Egypt

Khedive (viceroy) of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879

Isma'il Pasha, also known as Ismail the Magnificent, was the Khedive of Egypt and ruler of Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of Great Britain and France. Sharing the ambitious outlook of his grandfather, Muhammad Ali Pasha, he greatly modernized Egypt…