Frederic Moseley Wanklyn (1939-2017)

He was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and through his mother he was a great-great-grandson of Edwin Charles Moseley, founder of The Nassau Guardian (1844). He was educated at St. Andrew’s School, Nassau; Bishop’s College School in Lennoxville, Quebec; and, Princeton. In Montreal, he became involved the construction of the Place Ville Marie, and becoming interested in politics he moved to Ottawa to serve as the executive assistant to Brigadier-General C.M. ‘Bud’ Drury, M.P., the Minister of Industry and Minister of Defence Production in the Liberal government of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. In 1966, Fred moved to Paris, France, serving as Commercial Attaché at the Canadian Embassy. The Wanklyns divided their time between Paris and a weekend home west of Paris before they acquired a large part of an old mansion on Corsica. He later lived for several years on the neighbouring island of Sardinia where he developed several properties in the 1970s. Returning to the Bahamas in 1979, he remained active in real estate. Retiring in 2005, Fred returned to France with his second wife, buying a house in Lombers in the Tarn. With his first wife, Victoria Webster, of Montreal, he had three children: Wendy Moseley Wanklyn; Sara Webster Wanklyn; and, Frederic Angus Wanklyn. After they divorced in the 1970s, he married Luleen Handcock in 1981.