George Fiddes

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Sir George Vandeleur Fiddes,

Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.[1]

Early life

George Vandeleur Fiddes was born in Great Yarmouth, the son of George Richard Fiddes and Ellen Greening. He was educated at Dulwich College, his grandmother Jane Greening being a pensioner of the Dulwich College Estate when he was 12 and with whom he was living along with his mother Ellen in 1871.[2] He was subsequently a scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford where he took a second-class in Classical Moderations in 1879.[1]

Career

Fiddes entered the

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1917.[1][3]

Personal life

Fiddes married Lucia Marie Simon and had a daughter, Lucia Marie, in 1884 and a son, George Graham, in 1888.[4][1]

He died in 1936 in Bournemouth.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Obituary: Sir G. V. Fiddes". The Times. 24 December 1936. p. 14.
  2. ^ 1871 England Census Class: RG10; Piece: 721; Folio: 74; Page: 29; GSU roll: 823349.
  3. ^ The Times | February 13, 1917, p. 6
  4. ^ 1891 England Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 1033; Folio 215; Page 28; GSU roll: 6096143.
Government offices
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Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

1916–1921
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