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Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox GCMG GCIE KCSI KBE DL (20 November 1864 – 20 February 1937) was a British Indian Army officer and Colonial Office administrator in the Middle East. He was one of the major figures in the creation of the current Middle East.
Sir Percy Cox was a diplomat who was especially important in the development of independent Iraq from a British mandated territory after World War I. Interpreting the mandate favourably to Iraqi interests, he oversaw the transition from a provisional and largely military regime to a national.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
cox, sir percy zachariah (b. Herongate, near Brentwood, Essex, England, 20 November 1864, d. Bedford, England, 20 February 1937), officer of the political service in the British Indian government who held several diplomatic posts in the Persian Gulf region in 1893-1923 and played a leading role in negotiating the Anglo-Persian Agreement of ...
Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert. April 1941 Published on April 1, 1941. A biography of one of Britain's outstanding pro-consuls -- the man who assured her hegemony in 'Iraq and around the Persian Gulf.
30 de abr. de 2010 · ‘Britain's Moment in the Middle East’: was it an imperial triumph or a decisive staging post in the end-of-empire story? Sir Percy Cox (1864-1937) was a vital figure in the history of the...
- John Townsend
- I.B.Tauris, 2010
- 0857715933, 9780857715937
3 de mai. de 2011 · Proconsul to the Middle East: Sir Percy Cox and the End of Empire – By John Townsend. Seth J. Frantzman PhD. First published: 03 May 2011. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-3606.2011.00083.x. Read the full text.
1 de dez. de 2011 · Sir Percy Cox dedicated his pro fessional life and sacrificed much of his personal life in the service of one overwhelming objective—defending the supremacy of the British Empire in the Persian...
