author
Sidney Cornwallis Peel
1870–1938
A soldier, barrister, financier, and politician, he wrote with the firsthand confidence of someone deeply involved in Britain’s imperial world. His best-known book on the Nile and Sudan blends travel, history, and policy into a vivid snapshot of its time.
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The binding of the Nile and the new Soudan
by Sidney Cornwallis Peel
About the author
Born in 1870, Sidney Cornwallis Peel built an unusually varied career. Reliable reference sources identify him as a British Army officer, barrister, financier, and Conservative politician, and he later became Sir Sidney Peel, 1st Baronet.
He is associated as an author with The Binding of the Nile and the New Soudan, first published in 1904. The book reflects a practical interest in the politics, engineering, and imperial administration of the Nile region, giving modern listeners a window into how Britain’s governing class wrote about Africa in the early twentieth century.
Peel also served as Member of Parliament for Uxbridge from 1918 to 1922, and for many years chaired the Advisory Committee of the Export Credits Guarantee Department. He died in 1938, leaving behind work that is as revealing for its historical perspective as for its subject matter.