Editing Proconsul (section)

==British Empire==

British colonial officials sometimes referred to as proconsuls include [[Alfred Milner]] in South Africa, [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston|Lord Curzon]] in [[British Raj|India]], [[Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard|Lord Lugard]] in [[Colonial Nigeria|Nigeria]], and [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|Lord Kitchener]] in [[History of Egypt under the British|Egypt]] and [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan|Sudan]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Alan |last=Knight |chapter=Britain and Latin America |editor-first=Andrew |editor-last=Porter |title=The Oxford history of the British Empire |volume=3, The nineteenth century |year=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> These leaders were able to take imperial initiatives even when the government in [[London]] was reluctant. [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative and Unionist]] governments were notably more tolerant of such freelancing than [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] governments were. These proconsuls ruled in the age of the transoceanic telegraph, so rapid communication did not end proconsular independence.{{sfn|Lord|2012a|p=14}}