Christopher Thomas Gandy (1917-2009) was a British soldier, diplomat and collector of Islamic art.

Life

Christopher Gandy was the son of the writer Ida Gandy and Thomas Hall Gandy (1876–1948), a GP. He was a direct descendant of the architect Joseph Gandy and Selina Byam, painted by Thomas Gainesborough. His younger siblings were the mathematician Robin Gandy and Gillian Gandy, a pioneer of neonatal intensive care.[1]

Gandy was a diplomat active in Yemen, Libya, and Iran from the 1940s until the 1970s.[2]

He died on 9 December 2009, aged 92.[3] He bequeathed his collection of Islamic art to the Ashmolean Museum. Highlights were exhibited at the Ashmolean in 2014.[2]

Writings

  • "The Yemen Revisited". Asian Affairs. 58. October 1971. doi:10.1080/03068377108729585.
  • "Clio with One Eye: a New Book on the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: 370–7. 1988.
  • "A Mission to Yemen: August 1962-January 1963". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 25 (2): 247-74. November 1998. JSTOR 195734.

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary: Gillian Gandy". BMJ. 2 June 2016. doi:10.1136/bmj.i3106.
  2. 1 2 "Lure of the East: Selections from the Christopher Gandy Collection". Ashmolean Museum. 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Deaths". The Times. No. 69819. 15 December 2009. p. 56.
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