Oswald Raynor Arthur

Who was Oswald Raynor Arthur?

Sir Raynor Arthur KCMG CVO was a British colonial administrator.

Arthur was born in Poona, the son of Sigismund Arthur and Constance Hobhouse. 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 and CVO in 1953 and knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1957. He was made a knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1954. He was a Justice of the Peace in East Sussex in 1962.