Alexander Granville Pasha was a British physician and colonial administrator in British Egypt.
Occupation
physician
Born
1874
Died
March 30, 1929, March 23, 1929
Overview
Alexander Granville Pasha (1874 – 30 March 1929) was a British physician and colonial administrator in British Egypt.
Biography
Granville was born in Egypt, educated at Bloxham School and received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He initially worked as a physician and house-surgeon at the West London Hospital in Maida Vale. He served in the South African War as a medical officer in the British Army.
He subsequently joined the colonial Egyptian Government Service, where he would hold several important posts. Granville worked as inspector of the Public Health Department, director at the Ministry of Interior and Director-General of the Alexandria Municipality. Among his most important contributions was the decrease in the death rate in Cairo by improving the unsanitary conditions in the crowded streets, which had contributed to high mortality rate from disease.
