Eric Armar Vully de Candole CMG

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(14 September 1901 - 7 July 1989) was a British civil servant.

Early life and education

EAVdeC was born in Phillak Hayle,

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on 14 September 1901, the elder son, the middle child of Rev. Armar Corry Vully de Candole and Edith Hodgson. He was educated at

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and

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Career

On 3 August 1923 he sailed from Liverpool on the HMS Leicestershire to

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to take up his diplomatic post in the

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

. He was in the

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from 1923 to 1946, when he became Administrator of

Cyrenaica Cyrenaica ( ) or Kyrenaika ( ar, برقة, Barqah, grc-koi, Κυρηναϊκή ��παρχίαKurēnaïkḗ parkhíā}, after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya. Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya between ...

and

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

until 1951. He was Advisor to the King of Libya between 1951 and 1954. On 17 December 1953 he flew from Beirut to Paris.

Orders of chivalry

* Officer of the Order of the Nile (Egypt), 1934 * Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), 1950 * Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (CMG), 1952 * Order of Istiqlal (Libya), 1954

Family

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: * John Armar Vully de Candole, MC, born 1 October 1933, married Lisa, 6 December 1958 * Charles Anthony Vully de Candole, born 20 December 1951, died 14 September 2001, aged 48 * Mark Andrew Vully de Candole, born 15 April 1953 EAVdeC died on 12 June 1989 in

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Bibliography

* "The life and times of King Idris of Libya", published by Mohamed Ben Ghalbon, 1988

References

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Notes

* De Candole's entry in ''

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