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Eric Armar Vully de Candole | |
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| Born | 14 September 1901 |
| Died | 7 July 1989 (aged 87) Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Worcester College, Oxford |
Eric Armar Vully de Candole CMG CBE (14 September 1901 - 7 July 1989) was a British civil servant.
EAVdeC was born in Phillak Hayle, Redruth on 14 September 1901, the elder son, the middle child of Rev. Armar Corry Vully de Candole and Edith Hodgson. [1]
He was educated at Colet Court, Aldenham School and Worcester College, Oxford. [2]
On 3 August 1923 he sailed from Liverpool on the HMS Leicestershire to Port Said to take up his diplomatic post in the Sudan. [3] He was in the Sudan Political Service from 1923 to 1946, when he became Administrator of Cyrenaica and Somalia until 1951. He was Advisor to the King of Libya between 1951 and 1954. On 17 December 1953 he flew from Beirut to Paris. [4]
On 7 September 1932 in St. Martin-in-the-fields, London, he married Marion Elizabeth "Betty" Pender née Roberts (died 4 March 1997), the daughter of Major Henry Constable Roberts. They had three children: [5]
EAVdeC died on 12 June 1989 in Bournemouth. [6]
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