High Commissioner for the British Antarctic Territory
In office 1962–1964
Preceded by
Inaugural holder
Succeeded by
Cosmo Haskard
Personal details
Born
Edwin Porter Arrowsmith
23 May 1909
Died
10 July 1992 (aged 83)
Nationality
British
Alma mater
Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford
Sir Edwin Porter ArrowsmithKCMG (23 May 1909 – 10 July 1992) was a British colonial administrator.
He was Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos from 1940 to 1946, Administrator of Dominica from 1946 to 1952, Resident Commissioner, Basutoland from 1952 to 1956, Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1957 to 1964 and concurrently High Commissioner for the British Antarctic Territory from 1962 to 1964.[1][2][3]
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1950 Birthday Honours[4] and a Knight Commander of the Order (KCMG) in the 1959 Birthday Honours.[5]
^"Collection: Archive of Sir Edwin Arrowsmith | Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts". archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
^"The Falkland Islands and the British Empire". www.britishempire.co.uk.
^"No. 42627". The London Gazette. 20 March 1962. p. 2330.
^"No. 38938". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1950. p. 2778.
^"No. 41727". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 June 1959. p. 3700.
Sir Edwin Porter Arrowsmith KCMG (23 May 1909 – 10 July 1992) was a British colonial administrator. He was Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos from 1940...
Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. pp168/9: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 "Montagu, Edwin Samuel (MNTG898ES)". A Cambridge Alumni Database...
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1955-58 and named for Edwin Porter Arrowsmith, Governor of the Falkland Islands. Various features along the coast of Arrowsmith Peninsula have been charted...
of Charles Arrowsmith Bernays, died at Gallipoli, Turkey. Edwin Arthur Bernays, son of Adolphus Bernays Herbert Leopold Bernays, son of Edwin Arthur Bernays...
2023. Clifton College Register. Muirhead, J.A.O. p144: Bristol; J.W. Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April 1948 London Gazette Crockford's Clerical...
1911. Dingle, Edwin John (1912). China's Revolution, 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War. Bristol: Arrowsmith; New York: McBride;...
Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p77: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 "Pease, William Edwin (PS884WE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database...
McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (1924) So Big by Edna Ferber (1925) 1926–1950 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1926; declined) Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (1927)...
Jane Murfin Best Adaptation Bad Girl – Edwin J. Burke, based on the novel and play by Viña Delmar‡ Arrowsmith – Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Sinclair...
this time also served as the Governor of the Falkland Islands Edwin Porter Arrowsmith (1962–1964) Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard (1964–1970) Ernest...
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military empire to eccentric pop-culture superpower". Quartz. May 27, 2020. Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard (2010). Modernism and the Museum: Asian, African, and...
player (national team). Jesús Aranzabal, 83, Spanish racing cyclist. Pat Arrowsmith, 93, English peace activist, co-founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament...
1876-1890 (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1890) Clifton College, The Memorial to Old Cliftonians who fell in the South African War (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1904)...
Adolf Kaegi, The Rigveda: The Oldest Literature of the Indians (trans. R. Arrowsmith), Boston, Ginn and Co. (1886), 2004 reprint: ISBN 978-1-4179-8205-9. Mallory...
and quartered, many of them at Tyburn. Saint John Almond Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Saint Ambrose Barlow Saint John Boste Saint Alexander Briant Saint Edmund...
discovery of Phoenix island at 3°42'S, 170°43'W, while cartographer John Arrowsmith plotted it 12 minutes further north; a rediscovery of Sydney is at 4°26'30"...
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