Boghos Nubar

 ( 1851 Births ) 

Boghos Nubar (), also known as Boghos Nubar Pasha (Պօղոս Նուպար Փաշա; 2 August 1851 – 25 June 1930), was the son of Nubar Pasha, a three time governor of Egypt. A chairman of the Armenian National Delegation,The New Armenia, Volumes 11-12, The New Armenia Pub. Co., 1919, page 63 and the founder, alongside ten other Armenian national movement leaders, of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) on April 15, 1906, becoming its first ever president, a position he held from 1906 to 1928.

In 1912, he was appointed by Catholicos Gevorg V to head the Armenian National Delegation.

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Early life Nubar was born in Istanbul (capital of the Ottoman Empire) in 1851. His father was Prime Minister Nubar Pasha. He was educated in Egypt and France as a civil engineer. Worked on water works of Egypt and irrigation projects in Sudan.

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Career Nubar fought for the Armenian cause.By Joan George "Merchants in Exile: The Armenians of Manchester, England, 1835-1935" page 184

As early as the beginning of 1912 the Catholicos of Mother See of Echmiazin Gevork V had sent the Boghos Nubar to the Cabinets of Europe with a commission to demand administrative autonomy for Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. He has also been considered as one of the prominent Armenian figures in the Ottoman Empire.Title: Memories of a Turkish statesman-1913-1919, Publisher George H. Doran Company, 1922, page 246 This proceeding was a step for Russian and French policy in Constantinople almost at the same moment on March 15, 1913.

Boghos Nubar, the ambassador, repeatedly assertsthat the Armenians of Ottoman Empire in no way desire to bring up the question of independence or constitutional changes (regarding Armenian National Constitution). Their sole aim is to secure the reforms drawn up by Russia France and England and provided for in the Treaty of Berlin reforms which have remained a dead letter hitherto. In February 1914, the Armenian reform package passed. Yeniköy accord was a reform plan devised by the European powers between 1912 and 1914 that envisaged the creation of two provinces in Ottoman Armenia placed under the supervision of two European inspectors general, who would be appointed to oversee matters related to the Armenian issues.Davison, Roderic H. " The Armenian Crisis, 1912-1914," The American Historical Review 53 (Apr., 1948), pp. 481-505.

In January, 1919, The Times published a letter from Boghos Nubar (an Ottoman Empire citizen) in which he protests, belatedly, about the non-representation of Armenians at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The letter includes a useful summary of the Armenian contribution to the allied war effort.

Boghos Nubar retired from politics in 1921 died in Paris in 1930.

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Awards

• Boghos Nubar was awarded the Belgian "Ordre de Leopold" and Egyptian Medjidieh, Osmanieh and Nile Orders, honorary degrees and medals for distinguished servicesNubar and Nubarashem, a publication of the general Directorship of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (Paris, 1929), 5-7.
• Officer of Legion of Honour
• Gold medal at the Paris International Exhibition (1900, for the invention of the tractor - mechanical plow)
• Gold medal of the Milan International Exhibition (1906)

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