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John Oliver Udal

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John Udal
Born
John Oliver Udal

1926 (1926)
Died (aged 96)
Employers

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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b "John Udal", The Times, 30 November 2022
  2. ^ E. Horrox (1996), Udal, John Oliver, Durham University
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Adrian Udal (15 September 2022), "Udal", Telegraph Announcements
  5. ^ 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