Hassuna D'Ghies
(b. c. 1792), Libyan government minister
Son of Mohammed D'Ghies, foreign minister of Yusuf Qaramanli, pasha of Tripoli, in 1822. He was sent as Tripolitanian ambassador to Britain in 1821. Sherif or chief minister of Yusuf Qaramanli 1826–1829; he was dismissed and exiled in 1829, in response to apparently invented accusations of connivance in the murder of the Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing in 1826, and became heavily involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the government and replace it with a more Western-style one. The conspiracy, under Ali Qaramali, led to armed insurrection and the abdication of Yusuf in favour of his son Ali II in 1832, followed by the annexation of Tripoli by the Sultan Mahmud II in 1835. Author of a pamphlet on the abolition of the slave trade (1822).
Biographical note by Electronic Enlightenment Project.
Updated January 2009.
EE source editions with biographical details
- Bentham, Jeremy. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. 12 vol. Ed. Timothy L. S. Sprigge (vol. 1, 2), Ian R. Christie (vol. 3), Alexander T. Milne (vol. 4, 5), J. R. Dinwiddy (vol. 6, 7), Stephen Conway (vol. 8–10), Catherine Fuller (vol. 11), Luke O'Sullivan & Catherine Fuller (vol. 12). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968–2006. Print.
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