Eric Armar Vully de Candole


Eric Armar Vully de Candole, CMG, CBE, held the post of Her Britannic Majesty's Resident, Cyrenaica and Somalia from 1949 to 1951, and then Advisor to the King of Libya between 1951 and 1954.

Background

EAVdeC was born in Phillak Hayle, Redruth on 14 September 1901, the elder son, the middle child of Rev. Armar Corry Vully de Candole and Edith Hodgson.

Education

He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford.

Career

On 3 August 1923 he sailed from Liverpool on the HMS Leicestershire to Port Said to take up his post in the Sudan. He was in the Sudan Political Service from 1923 to 1946, when he became Administrator of Cyrenaica and Somalia until 1951. He was Advisor to the King of Libya between 1951 and 1954. On 17 December 1953 he flew from Beirut to Paris.

Family

On 7 September 1932 in St. Martin-in-the-fields, London, he married Marion Elizabeth "Betty" Pender née Roberts, the daughter of Major Henry Constable Roberts.
They had three children -
EAVdeC died on 12 June 1989 in Bournemouth.