Lee Stack

Lee Stack
Stack, c. 1924
Governor-General of Sudan
In office
1917 – 19 November 1924
Preceded byReginald Wingate
Succeeded byGeoffrey Francis Archer
Personal details
Born15 May 1868
Darjeeling, India
Died20 November 1924 (aged 56)
Cairo, Egypt
Military service
Branch/serviceBritish Army
Years of service1888–1924
RankMajor-General

Major-General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, GBE, CMG (15 May 1868 – 20 November 1924) was a British Army officer and Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.[1] On 19 November 1924, he was shot by assassins while driving through Cairo, and died of his wounds the next day.[2]

  1. ^ Daly, M.W. (September 2004). "'Stack, Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice (1868–1924)'". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36230. Retrieved 10 February 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Chamberlain, Austen; Robert C. Self (1995). The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with His Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937. Cambridge University Press. p. 300. ISBN 0-521-55157-9.