He was called “Abo Al-Falah” … and the one who was credited with establishing the Royal Agricultural Society. He was married twice and his four sons are “Kamal al-Din,” “Kazem”, “Kazma” and “Kamila” .
Mahmoud Mohamed wrote:
About him, Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq said in his book ” Arabian horse breeding in Egypt” His Royal Highness Sultan Hussein Kamel made Egypt return to its leadership in the field of horses, following the first ancestor of his grandfathers. ”This is Prince Hussein Kamel, who is credited with establishing the Royal Agricultural Society.
Prince Hussein Kamel assumed the presidency of the association from its first meeting on March 30, 1898 until December 19, 1914, when he gave great attention to horses, and horse breeding began in the Agricultural Society during his reign. During the era of the emirate and in the era of the Sultanate Kamel was the most princes loving the farmer and taking care of his affairs and watching over his interests until he was called the right of “Aba Al-Falah”. During the reign of his father Ismail, he inspected the northern and southern regions, and he also took over the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War, then the Ministry of Finance and the Presidency of the Representative Council, and thus he was able to get acquainted with the work of the government, and he was the only prince who held various positions of the ministry, and he had a praiseworthy effect in each of them.
And he established the Royal Agricultural Society, which provides the Egyptian peasant with the most important services, and established the departments of animal husbandry and flower breeding, and he set up exhibitions and took care of the agricultural syndicates project. He was connected with the great farmers and their notables, and he was so sympathetic to the small farmers that he knew them one by one. He also established a group of schools, the most important one of them is Damanhour Industrial School, on which he spent from his own property.
Marital life and children: Sultan Hussein Kamel has two wives, the first, Princess Ain al-Hayat Ahmed, who is the daughter of Prince Ahmed Rifat Pasha from his wife Princess Dilber Jahan Qadin, who was born on October 5, 1858, and Sultan Hussein married her on January 15, 1873, then divorced her in 1885, and she died in 1910, and their children including:
Prince Kamal al-Din: who died on December 20, 1874, Princess Kazma, who died on July 19, 1879, Princess Kamila, who died on October 12, 1877, Prince Ahmed Kazem: who died on April 21, 1897.
It is noteworthy that the letter “Al Kaf” printed the names of the prince’s sons with a special character. The father was named “Kamil” and his two sons “Kamal al-Din” and “Kazim” and his two daughters “Kazma” and “Kamila”.
As for the second wife of the Emir, she is the sovereign, “Malak Jeshm Aft”, from whom Her Royal Highness gave birth to Princess Qadria, who was born on January 10, 1888, and Her Royal Highness Princess Samiha, who was born on July 17, 1889.
Ali Pasha Sherif keeps horses on “Abdel Aziz Street” Ali Pasha Sherif established a division to breed “the best kinds of horses” with “80 mare and 30 horses” … and he sold the horses to “France, Australia, Italy and Germany”.
Ali Pasha bought a large number of horses.
Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq, in his book “A Message in the Horses,” referred to howfar Ali Pasha Sherif care about the horses, saying: “Ali Bey – who became Ali Pasha Sherif later – bought the largest number of these horses, and sold some of them to the governments.”
Prince Tawfiq added: 18 horses and mare were sold to the French government, two horses to the Australian government, 20 to the Italian government, two to the German government, and the rest of them were sold by two and three to some Egyptians.
Tawfiq continued: “Ali Bey bought the largest number of these horses, and established a stable in his palace on“ Al-Hadaara Al-Mosul ”Street, Abdel Aziz Street in Cairo“ now ”, where he began to breed the best kinds of horses after the death of Abbas Pasha I between 1848 and 1864 AD, and he died during the rule of Abbas Pasha II.
Ali Pasha takes care of and selects the finest horses.
Prince Tawfiq stresses in his book that the best Arabian horses that came to the Egyptian country are the choice of a great, expert and influential man who acquired his high royal position, as the good Arabian horse reached the height of its glory at that time, After Abbas Pasha I died, Ali Pasha Sharif took care of horse breeding to the fullest. Tawfiq raised an important issue by saying: “The rich people of the country were proud of their horses and their saddles studded with pure gold. And pure silver, each according to its capacity, ”explaining that in the year 1880 the price of the Arabian horse, which was used in sports and training of soldiers, three hundred pounds.
Egypt possesses a great treasure thanks to the character of Ali Pasha.
He affirms: “It is Egypt’s luck that Ali Pasha Sherif continued to keep the finest horses raised by Abbas Pasha I, and if it were not for him, this effect of Abbas Pasha I would have disappeared. And Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq continues, introducing Ali Pasha, “Muhammad Ali Pasha the Great summoned Sayyid Muhammad Sharif Ali Pasha’s father – from “Qula” to Egypt and he was about twelve years old, and he enrolled him in the Khanka school, where he received knowledge like Children of princes and pashas, after which he assumed various positions in the Egyptian government during the rule of Muhammad Ali Pasha, then he was appointed as a governor For Arab countries, Lebanon and the Levant, inclusive.
The scientific and practical stage of Ali Pasha Sharif It is noteworthy that Ali Pasha was born in Egypt and received his studies at the Khanka School, where his father received his acquaintances Then he sent him to France to complete his studies at the Staff of War School in Paris, in the Vendôme neighborhood, where he had a brilliant success, as he was the first in his division. Then he was appointed in the French army with the rank of Yusbashi, and he served in France and participated in the revolution of 1848 with a position of staff of war, and quickly rose to the rank of commander of the siege of Paris, then returned to Egypt and was appointed Admiralay in the Egyptian artillery in the rule of Muhammad Ali Pasha the Great “from 1805 to the year 1848, After the death of his father, he was appointed head of the Egyptian Chamber of Commerce, then head of the Shura Council, and he served in the Egyptian government under the rule of its rulers, namely: Muhammad Ali Pasha the Great “from 1805 to 1848”, and Ibrahim Pasha from 1789 to 1848.
And Abbas Pasha I from “1848 until 1854”, Saeed Pasha from “1854 until 1863”, and Khedive Ismail Pasha from “1863 until the year 1879”, Khedive Tawfiq Pasha from “1879 until 1892”, and Khedive Abbas Hilmi Pasha from “1892 until the year” 1914 ”.
Ali Pasha’s death
Ali Pasha Sherif died during Abbas Pasha Hilmi II’s rule, leaving among his sons Hussein Bey Sherif, who followed his father’s footsteps in raising the finest horses since his youth.
Establishing the department of breeding the finest horses…
Ali Pasha was successful in establishing a department of breeding the finest kinds of horses, as he made it from what he bought before and from those offered by Ilhami Pasha for sale later, and this was the greatest division of breeding in Egypt, as it had eighty mares and thirty horses presented the best of them as a gift to King Victor Emmanuel and the King of Württemberg.
And Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq continued in his book: “The good luck of Egypt is to sponsor a great man who is passionate about horses like Ali Pasha Sherif. And his pledge to raise the best of them constantly, because he was the most wealthy pasha, and living was affluent in that era and the wages of workers were so low that he used twenty Circassian men to serve his horses for a small fee, as each of them was getting twenty piasters a month except for his food other than In our current time, aman may be devoted to serving three of the horses,in this case, he is not expected to perform the proper service Which was performed before during the reign of Ali Pasha Sherif.
