Leonard Fielding Nalder (1888-1958) was a British

British Empire

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 colonial administrator who was Governor in turn of Fung Province (1927-1930) and Mongalla

Mongalla, South Sudan

Mongalla or Mangalla is a community in Central Equatoria state in South Sudan, on the east side of the Bahr al Jebel or White Nile river. It lies about by road northeast of Juba. The towns of Terekeka and Bor lie downstream, north of Mongalla....

 province (1930-1936) in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

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Fielding was born in 1888 and educated at Rugby School

Rugby School

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 and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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. He joined the Sudan Political Service and was posted to Khartoum

Khartoum

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 in 1912, then to the Red Sea Province from 1913 to 1917. He was temporarily transferred to serve in Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

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 and Iraq

Iraq

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 between 1917 and 1922. Between 1923 and 1926 he served in Kordofan and Khartoum. In 1927 he was a member of the Turko-Iraq Frontier Delimitation Commission. In 1927 he was appointed Governor of Fung Province, and in 1930 Governor of Mongalla province, serving in this position until his retirement in 1936.