 Lampson, a huge man who was 6'5 tall, had grown up in the late Victorian era and had the typical views of an upper-class Victorian Englishman, regarding all non-white peoples whether Chinese, Indians, or Egyptians as "inferior races" who needed to be ruled by the British for their own good.Lampson was charmed by Egypt, which he regarded as a wondrous exotic land, but as his Arabic was not particularly good, his contacts with ordinary Egyptians were only on a superficial level.Lampson was fluent in French and his social contracts were almost entirely with the Egyptian elite.