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Born Surbiton, Surrey, 14 December 1887, 7th son of Maj-Gen G Carden, deceased; husband of Marjorie Ruth (nee Scott), of Maida Hill, London..
Educated Wellington College (1899-1903) and then Corpus (where he achieved a 2nd class degree in Jurisprudence in 1906), after university Percy was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1908 and joined the Charity Commission in 1921 after serving in WW1 in first the Public Schools Battalion and then the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force, where he became a Captain and Flight Commander and was awarded the Military Cross in 1918. In 1930 he married Marjorie, daughter of Lt-Col Hopton Scott: he was also the author of The Murder of Edwin Drood…An Attempted Solution of the Mystery. He re-enlisted in WW2 but died on active service on 12 February 1942 (aged 54).