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Is there an Egyptian Community in Sheffield


RoseHadi

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  • 11 months later...
I believe his wife Margaret was a Sheffielder and they met at Sheffield University. Maybe someone could fill the bank spots in my memory?

 

It was evidently President Sadat's mother-in-law who was from Sheffield. Anwar Sadat married Jehan Safwat Raouf whose parents were Safwat Raouf and and Gladys Raouf, née Cotterill. See http://www.egy.com/historica/egyptianconsorts.shtml which includes the statement:

 

"On 2 September 1924, at Ecclesall Bierlow in the county of Derby (UK), Safwat Raouf, a 25 year-old medical student at Sheffield University, married music teacher Gladys Cotterill, the daughter of Charles Henry Cotterill, a Sheffield City police superintendent".

 

Their daughter Jehan was born in 1933, and she married Anwar Sadat in 1949. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehan_Al_Sadat

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