Hassan Farid Didi

Who is Hassan Farid Didi?

Prince Hassan Farid Didi was a Maldivian royal and a statesmen. He was the Minister for Home Affairs, Finance, Minister of State and Plenipotentiary Representative in Ceylon.

Born as the younger son of the Prince Abdul Majeed Didi, later Sultan Elect of the Maldives and Princess Veyoge Ruqia Don Goma, the daughter of Sultan Hassan Nooraddeen II. His twin brother Muhammad Fareed Didi was the last Sultan of the Maldives.

Educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo in Ceylon, he returned to Malé in the 1920s. Appointed Treasurer and Minister of Finance from 1932 to 1933; Minister for Home Affairs 1934 to 1939. During World War II he served as Maldive's Plenipotentiary Representative in Ceylon from 1942 to 1944. He was killed whilst en rout to Colombo when his ship, the 249 ton British naval trawler HMS Maaløy was torpedoed by U-510, 27 March 1944.