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From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]
Sent: 01 November 2009 04:00
To: DSD Enquiries
Subject: Enquiery about Didrik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, judge in Cairo,
from Denmark/Fwd: FW: About Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, judge in British
imperial Egypt
Hi,
I'm a Norwegian citizen, living in the UK.
I was adviced by the University of Cambridge, to contact
you.
It's regarding my ancestor, Didrik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, from Denmark, who was
my grandmother, Ingeborg Ribsskog's grand-uncle.
He worked in an international court in Cairo, and I was just
wondering if I have illuminists/kabalists, in my family, so I was wondering if
he stated any interests in old egyptian religion etc., when he got the job as a
judge in Cairo?
Since I have so many 'New Age'-people in my family, and my
grandmother was also 'New Age', so I was wondering if the judge was 'New Age',
since the judge's brother, my grandmoters grandfather, the general Anders
(Gjedde) Nyholm, was in charge of all of Denmarks war-forces, (chief of the
generalkommando), in the 1920's, so I was wondering if he or someone in my
family, where 'New Age "spies"'.
Here is more about Didrik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm:
SECOND YEAR BOOK OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
DIDRIK GALTRUP GJEDDE NYHOLM (Denmark).
Member of the International Mixed Tribunal at
Cairo since
1896 and Vice-President of that body since 1916;
Justice of
the Court of Appeals at Copenhagen; member of the
Perma-
nent Court of Arbitration at The Hague; author of
one of the
draft schemes for an International Court of
Justice used by
the Committee of International Jurists as a basis
for the
scheme finally adopted by the League.
Thanks
in advance for any help!
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From: J.P. Slight <jps50@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: FW: About Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, judge in British imperial
Egypt
To: eribsskog@gmail.com
Dear Erik,
My
PhD supervisor Dr. Harper forwarded your email to me.
I
think you should visit the National Archives in person and explain to them the
person you are looking for – the staff are very good and you may find something
there.
In
Egypt, and many parts of the British Empire, non-British Europeans often filled
positions such as judges. The British were only concerned to exclude natives of
the country they were ruling (at least until the later nineteenth century).
Particularly in the Egyptian case there was a long precedent of Europeans
holding positions of power (Egypt's ruler in the early nineteenth century
Muhammad Ali was Albanian, and many Europeans were employed in the finance
ministry, the judiciary, the police force, and especially the Army). I hope
this answers your question.
With
best wishes,
John
Slight
From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]
Sent: 28 October 2009 05:54
To: tnh1000@cam.ac.uk
Subject: About Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, judge in British imperial
Egypt
Hi,
I'm
a Norwegian citizen, who's living in the UK, (due to problems with my family
etc., without that I've done anything wrong, that I know of, at least, in
Norway), and I have a late grandmoter from Denmark, Ingeborg Ribsskog, who said
that she was from the Danish noble-family Gjedde.
But I've later found out, on the internet, that they weren't noble after all,
so this was a lie, I think I have to say.
And, in her family, was eg. her grandfather, her mothers father, Anders Gjedde
Nyholm, who was Chief of the Generalkommando, that's the general with control
on all of Denmarks war-forces, in the 1920's.
And
her grand-uncle, was Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, who was a judge, for the
British imperial courts, in Cairo, and then later a judge in the International
Court, in Hague, in the 1920's.
I
wonder why they would lie about the noble backgroud.
Anders Gjedde Nyholm, only wrote A. Nyholm, I've seen, as a signature, on
official portrait-photographs in the Danish military-archives.
And
their grandfather, was a farmers son, I've read on Thisted Museum's, in
Denmark's, website.
So
they weren't noble, but they maybe used the Gjedde-name to get prestige,
because of the famous Admiral and colonisator of Tharambangdi, in India,
for Denmark-Norway, Ove Gjedde, was famous, and maybe they pretended to be from
the same family?
I've
tried to serch the British National Archives online, about this, but I got no
result, so I didn't know how to try to find out about this, other than
contacting a good university.
I
was wondering why the British Imperial Courts in Cairo, would let a Dane, (my
grandmothers grand-uncle), Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, be a judge, in the
British Empire?
Isn't this a bit strange, weren't this positions normally given to people from
the British Empire?
I
hope you have the chance to answer about this, or that you know of someone who
might know about this!
I
hope it's alright to ask about this, and I apologise, if it isn't.
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