Douglas Newbold

Douglas Newbold CBE
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Born	1894
Died	1945
Residence	Nahud, Kordofan, Sudan El Obeid, Kordofan, Sudan [1921] Imberley Lodge, East Grinstead; c/o Civil Secretary, Khartoum [just] Imberley Lodge, East Grinstead, Sussex [1925] Senkat, Sudan [1931] Sinkat, Sudan [1937]
Occupation	political administrative
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1921.01.11 societies Royal Geographical Society Royal African Society Central Asian Society

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1920.12.14 proposed by H. Balfour, seconded by R.R. Marett

Sudan Government head of political services

Notes From Elsewhere

Douglas Newbold (1894) entered the Sudan Political Service in 1920. His first post was the nomad district of Dar Kababish on the fringe of the Lybian Desert.From 1932 to 1938 he was Governor of Kordofan.
From 1939 until his death in 1945 he was Civil Secretary of Sudan. He was closely involved in the proces of democratization that led up to the independence of Sudan in 1956.

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