John Stephen Gandee, CMG,

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(8 December 1909 – 4 April 1994) was High Commissioner to Botswana from 1966 until 1969. Gandee was educated at Dorking High School for Boys. After seven years with the

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he was with the

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until 1949. He held diplomatic posts in

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, Bechuanaland,

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and

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After this he was Head of the Administration Department at the

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from 1961 to 1964; and Head of Office Services at the Diplomatic Service Administration from 1965 until his

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...

appointment.‘GANDEE, John Stephen’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201
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1909 births 1994 deaths Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Botswana Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Dorking Grammar School Civil servants in the Commonwealth Relations Office {{UK-diplomat-stub