George Fiddes
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
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]