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Soldier, official, shipbroker, alderman
John Udal |
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Born | John Oliver Udal 1926 (1926) |
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Died | (aged 96) |
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John Oliver Udal (1926–2022) was an officer in the
Irish Guards who served in
Mandatory Palestine. He was then a
district commissioner in
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He was responsible for the
Shilluk Kingdom and was privileged to witness the coronation ceremony for Reth Kur Wad Fafiti in
Fashoda in 1952.
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He was the grandson of
John Symonds Udal. He was educated at
Winchester College and
New College, Oxford.
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He was a councillor for
Kensington South on the
London County Council from 1961 to 1965. He started a career as a
shipbroker in 1966.
[1] He was then an
alderman on the
Greater London Council from 1967 to 1973.
He died on 12 September 2022, aged 96.
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Works
- The Nile in Darkness: Conquest and Exploration 1504-1862 (1998)
- The Nile in Darkness, a Flawed Unity, 1863-1899 (2005)
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- Munich on the Nile – The Road to Sudanese Independence (2016)
References
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"John Udal",
The Times, 30 November 2022
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^ E. Horrox (1996),
Udal, John Oliver, Durham University
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^ Gabriel R. Warburg (May 2007),
"The Search for the Sources of the White Nile and Egyptian-Sudanese Relations", Middle Eastern Studies, 43 (3), Taylor & Francis: 475–486
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^ Adrian Udal (15 September 2022),
"Udal", Telegraph Announcements
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^ Gabriel Warburg (July 2007),
"The Nile in Darkness, a Flawed Unity, 1863-1899 by John O. Udal", Middle Eastern Studies, 43 (4), Taylor & Francis: 663–665
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