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Victoria College, Alexandria

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  • Ezra Zilkha (1925 - 2019)
    Khedouri Zilkha (July 31, 1925 – October 2, 2019) was an American financier and philanthropist.Early lifeEzra Zilkha was born on July 31, 1925, in Baghdad, the son of the banker Khedouri Zilkha. He gre...

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Victoria College, Alexandria, (Arabic: كلية فيكتوريا‎) was founded in 1902 under the impetus of the recently ennobled Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer of the Barings Bank, that was heavily invested in Egyptian stability. For years the British Consul-General was ex officio on the board of Victoria College. The new college was to raise the standard of Imperial education and free it from the influences of the madrassas and the ubiquitous Jesuits, both of whom made the British foreign office uneasy. Among prominent subscribers to the project were members of the prominent internationalized Jewish and Maltese minority in Egypt including members of the Egyptian Royal family. Prior to the 1930s establishment of Baghdad College, members of the upper class of Iraq sent their children to Victoria College.