Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker

Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; of Sierra Leone Gambia; to United Kingdom[1]
	In office; 1959 – 1961
Preceded by	William Henry Fitzjohn
Succeeded by	William Henry Fitzjohn
Sierra Leonean Ambassador to the United Staates; of Sierra Leone ; to United States
	In office; July 18, 1961 – 1964
Preceded by	William Henry Fitzjohn
Succeeded by	Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier
Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; of Sierra Leone Gambia; to United Kingdom[2]
	In office; 1964 – 1965
Preceded by	William Henry Fitzjohn
Succeeded by	Victor Sigismond Kanu
Sierra Leonean Ambassador to Liberia; of Sierra Leone ; to Liberia
	In office; 1969 – 1973
Personal details
Born	March 1909; Mambo in Kagboro Chiefdom, Moyamba district
Died	April 2, 1975 (aged 66)
Spouse(s)	m. 1940, Olivette Hannah Stuart.
Children	son: Richard Edmund, Jr. daughters: Imodale Olivette, Lucilda Yamitra, Joyce Elaine, Velma Geneve and Sheil Yankese
Alma mater	Albert Academy in Freetown. 1935 B.A. Otlerbein College. Westerville, U.S.A.; 1937 M.A. Oberlin (Ohio) College.; 1947 Diploma of the Educational Teacher's College of the Columbia University.;

Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker (March 1909 – April 2, 1975) was a Sierra Leonean diplomat.

Career

In 1929 he was Printing Instructor at the Albert Academy in Freetown.
From 1931 to 1937 studied at an College in the U.S.A.
In 1938 he was a Senior Tutor at the Albert Academy in Freetown.
From 1939 to 1959 he was Principal of the Albert Academy.
From 1959 to 1961 he was Commissioner for Sierra Leone and Gambia in London.
From July 18, 1961 to 1964 he was Ambassador in Washington, D.C..[3]
From 1964 to 1966 he was High Commissioner (Commonwealth) in London (United Kingdom).
From 1969 to 1973 he was Ambassador to Monrovia (Liberia).[4]

Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Washington, D.C.
Mervyn O. Pragnell, Ann Patricia Rogers, The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who, Burke's Peerage Limited, 1985 p. 331

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