Arthur Havelock
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Arthur Havelock James Doyle (February 21, 1858 – February 19, 1948) was a career British colonial governor, serving as Governor of Sierra Leone from 1880, of Natal, of Madras, of Ceylon from 1890 to 1895, and of Tasmania from 1901 to 1904.
He was 4th Baronet Doyle, but was always known as Arthur Havelock. He was a colonel in the British army.
While Governor of Sierra Leone, he was involved in the dispute between Britain and Liberia over the Gallinas Territory. His governorship of Natal ended with the Second Boer War. A monument to his administration in Madras is the YMCA Building, the construction of which he micromanaged. A magnificent portrait of him hangs at Fort St. George.
He married Joyce Ethelreda Howard on October 31, 1903, and they had one daughter, Margaret Isabella Dorothy Evelyn Doyle.
He died just two days before his 90th birthday.
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