English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Henry McMahon
Lieutenant Colonel
Sir Arthur Henry McMahon
(28 November 1862
Simla
,
Indian Empire
– 29 December 1949
London
,
United Kingdom
), was a British diplomat and
Indian Army
officer who served as the
High Commissioner
in
Egypt
from 1915 to 1917. He was also an administrator in
British India
, and served twice as
Chief Commissioner
of
Balochistan
. McMahon is best known for the
McMahon-Hussein Correspondence
, as well as the
McMahon Line
between
Tibet
and India. He also features prominently in
T.E. Lawrence's
account of his role in the
Arab Revolt
against the
Ottoman Empire
during
World War I
,
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
. He is usually known as Sir Henry McMahon.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License