John Oliver Udal
Soldier, official, shipbroker, alderman
- Irish Guards
- Sudan Political Service
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.[1][2]
He was the grandson of John Symonds Udal. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.[3]
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.[4]
Works
- The Nile in Darkness: Conquest and Exploration 1504-1862 (1998)
- The Nile in Darkness, a Flawed Unity, 1863-1899 (2005)[5]
- Munich on the Nile – The Road to Sudanese Independence (2016)
References
- ^ a b "John Udal", The Times, 30 November 2022
- ^ E. Horrox (1996), Udal, John Oliver, Durham University
- ^ 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
- ^ Adrian Udal (15 September 2022), "Udal", Telegraph Announcements
- ^ 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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