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Sir Wasey Sterry, Kt, CBE (26 July 1866 in Stockland, Devon – 9 August 1955 in Windsor, Berkshire) was a British lawyer and colonial official who, among other things, served as Acting Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1924 and 1925.

Life

Wasey Sterry, son of the clergyman Reverend Francis Sterry and Augusta Emily Middleton, attended the prestigious Eton College, founded in 1440, from 1878 to 1885 and then began studying classical philology (Litterae humaniores) at Merton College of the University of Oxford. He completed his undergraduate studies in 1889 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), while he completed his postgraduate studies in 1892 with a Master of Arts (MA). At the same time, in 1892 he was admitted to the bar as a barrister at the Inns of Court of Lincoln's Inn and subsequently began working as a lawyer. In 1901 he joined the Colonial Service and was sent to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to serve as a judge in the courts. Sudan was controlled at that time under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium declared in 1899, which gave Sudan a separate political status in which sovereignty was shared jointly by the Khedivate of Egypt and the the British Crown. The military and civil government of Sudan was entrusted to a Governor-General, appointed by the Khedive of Egypt but nominated by the British government. In fact, however, there was no equal partnership between Great Britain and Egypt in Sudan, as the British dominated from the start. In 1907 Sterry was awarded the Order of the Medjidie Third Class by Khedive Abbas II. In 1915 he was appointed Chief Justice of Sudan, before serving as Legal Secretary to the colonial government of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1917 and 1926. For his services, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1918 New Year Honours. The first manifestations of Sudanese nationalism occurred in 1921, when Ali Abd al Latif founded the United Tribes Society and was arrested for nationalist agitation. In 1924, he founded the White Flag League (Arabic: جمعية اللواء الأبيض) with Abdullah Khalil, which was dedicated to expelling the British from Sudan. In June and August 1924, during the Sudan Crisis [de], demonstrations took place in Khartoum, but were suppressed.

After Governor-General Lee Stack was fatally wounded in an assassination attempt by Egyptian nationalists on 19 November 1924 in Cairo and died on the following day, Sterry became Acting Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on 21 November 1924. He remained in this post until 5 January 1925, after which Geoffrey Francis Archer formally became the new Governor-General. For his services he was ennobled as Knight Bachelor (Kt) in the 1925 New Year Honours, so that from then on he bore the predicate "Sir".

Sterry was a judge of the Supreme Court of Egypt (His Majesty's Supreme Court for Egypt) from 1928 to 1938, having settled in Cairo after leaving Khartoum. During this time he was awarded the Order of the Nile Second Class. After his retirement in 1938 he settled in England.

Publication

• The Eton College Register, 1441–1698, 1943

References

1. A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS, p. 1217
2. "No. 33007". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1924. pp. 1–10.
3. "No. 14144". The Edinburgh Gazette. 14 July 1925. p. 814.

External links

• SIR WASEY STERRY at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-07-13)
• "Sterry, Sir Wasey". Who’s Who. Retrieved 2024-12-30.

v t e Governors-general of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
The Lord Kitchener Reginald Wingate Lee Stack Wasey Sterry* Geoffrey Archer John Maffey Stewart Symes Hubert Huddleston Robert George Howe Knox Helm Muhammad Ahmad Abu Rannat*
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• 1866 births
• 1955 deaths
• People from Devon
• British lawyers
• Lawyers from Devon
• Egyptian judges
• Governors-general of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
• Knights Bachelor
• Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
• Recipients of the Order of the Nile
• Recipients of the Order of the Medjidie, 3rd class