Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker Explained

Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Office:	Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Sierra Leone Gambia to United Kingdom^[1]
Predecessor:	William Henry Fitzjohn
Successor:	William Henry Fitzjohn
Office2:	of Sierra Leone to United States
Predecessor2:	William Henry Fitzjohn
Successor2:	Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier
Office3:	Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Sierra Leone Gambia to United Kingdom^[2]
Predecessor3:	William Henry Fitzjohn
Successor3:	Victor Sigismond Kanu
Office4:	Sierra Leonean Ambassador to Liberia of Sierra Leone to Liberia
Birth Place:	Mambo in Kagboro Chiefdom, Moyamba district
Spouse:	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. He was the father of Yema Lucilda Hunter.

Career

In 1929 he was Printing Instructor at the Albert Academy in Freetown.
From 1931 to 1937 studied at a 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 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]

http://www.slhc-uk.org/ Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Web site: Home . slhc-uk.org.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-1961-07-18-A.aspx 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