George Vandeleur Fiddes
British civil servant
About George Vandeleur Fiddes
Lived 1858 – 1936 (aged 77–78).
Sir George Vandeleur Fiddes, (4 September 1858 – 22 December 1936) was the British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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. He was subsequently a scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford where he took a second-class in Classical Moderations in 1879.
Personal life Fiddes married Lucia Marie Simon and had a daughter, Lucia Marie, in 1884 and a son, George Graham, in 1888.
He died in 1936 in Bournemouth.
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