Sir Lee Stack was one of those quiet but diligent
workers who attract little attention outside the sphere of their work. Born in 1868 he was educated at Clifton, and it was known by everybody in Egypt that Sir Reginald Wingate' when Sirdar had found in Stack, whom he made his Military Secretary, -the very man he wanted—a man who could see into theleart of a problem, seizing on essentials and instinctively casting aside the -bountiful crops of irrelevances which are yielded by the Egyptian character. Stack Was, moreover, patient, just and sympathetic. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in a recent speech said of him :— " When I met him first he was merely a name to me. I ha d
heard all sorts of stories about the administration of the Sudan, and in the course of acquainting myself with the facts Sir Leo Stack's name was everywhere. When I met him I saw a quiet, silent, straightmincidd, devoted man, a man whose whole mind was absorbed in his work, who thought of one thing only—how to perform his dnty honestly with the whole of his soul, and it was even suggested to me, in one of our latest interviews, to face even death itself in order to perform his duty. I saw a man who won my great esteem and most -unqualified respect."
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