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| name = Brigadier E.A. Tandy<br />
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| office = [[Surveyor General of India]]<br />
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'''Sir Edward Aldborough Tandy''' {{postnominal|Kt}} (26 December 1871 – 30 November 1950) was a [[British Army]] officer who spent much of his career at the [[Survey of India]] and was [[Surveyor General of India]] 1924–1928.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|title=The India Office and Burma Office List|date=1928|publisher=[[Harrison and Sons]]|location=[[High Wycombe]]|page=833|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zVkKAAAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> When he retired in 1928 he held the rank of [[Brigadier]] and he was created a [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1929.<ref name=EJ>{{cite journal | url = https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1951-March.pdf#page=126 |page=103-105 | title = Brigadier Sir Edward A. Tandy KT | journal =The Royal Engineers Journal | date=March 1951 | access-date = 31 March 2026 }}</ref><br />
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He was the son of Colonel Edward Ord Tandy,<ref name=EJ/> [[Maurice Tandy]] (who also worked at the Survey of India) and [[Ernest Tandy]] were his younger brothers.<ref>{{cite news| work = Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) |date= 30 January 1929 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/19290130/100/0007 | access-date =31 March 2026 | title = Brigadier E. A. Tandy | page=7}}</ref><br />
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He served as a [[field engineer]] in the [[Tirah campaign]] and joined the Survey of India in 1898.<ref name=EJ/> During [[WW1]] he spent a period in [[Mesopotamia]] and in 1921 he was appointed as a Director to the Survey of India and became [[Surveyor General of India|Surveyor General]] in 1924.<br />
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Tandy died in [[Oxford]] on 30 November 1950.<br />
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