spent a year regaining his health. In 1908, he published, in two volumes, Modern Egypt, a narrative of events in Egypt and the Sudan since 1876. In 1910, he published Ancient and Modern Imperialism, an influential comparison of the British and Roman Empires. In 1914, after World War I broke out, the Khedive Abbas II of Egypt supported the Ottomans and was deposed by the British. This freed Baring to publish his impressions of the Khedive, Abbas II, in 1915. A lover of the classics, Baring was very well-read and spoke Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Turkish, but he never bothered to learn Arabic – the language of the lower classes in Egypt. During the opening years of the 20th century, a nationalist movement began to appear in Egypt, but Baring, who became increasingly aloof with age, brushed it off as inconsequential. Baring was active in politics. Having been raised to the peerage as Lord Cromer in 1892, Baring was entitled to sit in the House of Lords. He joined the free-trade wing of the Unionist Party. Baring was a leader of the anti-suffragette cause, serving as the president of the Men's League for Opposing Woman Suffrage in 1908, then in 1910–1912, the subsequent National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. In 1916 and aged 75, Cromer was appointed to chair the Dardanelles Commission, but it was too much strain for him to handle. In poor health, he would summon meetings at his house if forbidden to go out of doors. Historian John Grigg writes that he was “in effect killed by” the strain of the Commission. Baring died on 29 January 1917; he is buried at Wimborne Road Cemetery, Bournemouth, in Dorset. Family His brother was Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke. Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer, and Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, were two of his sons. Works Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of (1908). Modern Egypt, by the Earl of Cromer. New York, The Macmillan Company. . (2001 reprint, vol 1.) (vol 2.) Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of. Modern Egypt, vol. I, New York: MacMillan, 1908 Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of. Modern Egypt, vol. II, New York: MacMillan, 1908 Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of. Ancient and Modern Imperialism, New York: Longmans, 1910 Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of. Disraeli, London: MacMillan, 1912 Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of. Political and Literary Essays, London: MacMillan, 1913 References Sources Harrison, Robert