Oswald Raynor Arthur

Sir (Oswald) Raynor Arthur KCMG CVO (16 December 1905 – 4 December 1973) was a British colonial administrator.

Sir Raynor Arthur welcomed Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret when she made a brief visit to Nassau in May 1958

Arthur was born in Poona, the son of Sigismund Arthur (in the Indian Civil Service, grandson of Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet) and Constance Hobhouse (daughter of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Baronet). He was educated at Charterhouse School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and joined the Nigerian Political Service in 1928. On 8 May 1935 he married his cousin Mary, the only daughter of Sir Cecil Spring Rice, with whom he had two children. He transferred to the British administration in Cyprus in 1937, becoming the island's Chief Commissioner in 1948. He then moved on to the Americas and became Colonial Secretary of Bermuda 1951–54, Governor of the Falkland Islands 1954–57 and Governor of the Bahamas until 1960.

Arthur was appointed CMG[1] and CVO[2] in 1953 and knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1957.[3] He was made a knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1954.[4] He was a Justice of the Peace in East Sussex in 1962.

References

• ARTHUR, Sir (Oswald) Raynor, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
• Sir Raynor Arthur (obituary), The Times, London, 5 December 1973, page 21

1. "No. 39943". The London Gazette. 21 August 1953. p. 4533.
2. "No. 40043". The London Gazette. 15 December 1953. p. 6816.
3. "No. 40960". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1957. p. 4.
4. "No. 40215". The London Gazette. 25 June 1954. p. 3757.