Thomas Wentworth Russell
Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell "Russell Pasha" | |
|---|---|
| Commandant and Pasha | |
| In office 1917–1929 | |
| Monarch | Fuad I |
| Prime Minister | Abdel Khaliq Sarwat Pasha |
| Department | Cairo city police |
| British high commissioner | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby |
| Director of the Egyptian Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau | |
| In office 1929–1946 | |
| Monarchs | |
| Prime Minister | Abdel Khaliq Sarwat Pasha |
| British high commissioner | |
| Counterparts | Harry J. Anslinger, Charles Henry Ludovic Sharman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 November 1879 Wollaton rectory, England |
| Died | 10 April 1954 (aged 74) London |
| Spouse |
Evelyn Dorothea Temple
(m. 1911–1954) |
| Relatives | Sir John Wriothesley Russell (son) Christopher Sykes (son-in-law) John Russell (grandfather) Henry Willoughby (great-grandfather) |
| Education | Cheam School Haileybury College |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Years active | c. 1902 - 1946 |
| Other names | Russell Pasha |
Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell (22 November 1879 – 10 April 1954), better known as Russell Pasha, was a British police officer in the Egyptian service. He was the fourth child and third son of the Rev. Henry Charles Russell, the grandson of the sixth Duke of Bedford, and his wife, Leila Louisa Millicent Willoughby, the daughter of the eighth Baron Middleton.
As the director of the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau (CNIB), Russell Pasha became an anti-drug campaigner when he realised that opium, heroin, cocaine and hashish were being smuggled into Egypt in great and increasing quantities.
Al Jazeera writes:
"Thomas Russell Pasha, who reached the highest administrative and functional ranks during his long service in the Egyptian Ministry for a period of 44 years, was a shrewd British man in Egypt, and one of the most important figures who laid the foundations for the emergence and development of the security apparatus in Egypt before the 1952 revolution."