Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton

Arthur Frederick Richards, 1st Baron Milverton CMG, KCMG, GCMG (February 21, 1885–October 27, 1978), was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Nigeria from 1943 to 1948.

The son of William Rogers of Bristol, Richards served as Governor of North Borneo from 1930 to 1933 and of Gambia from 1933 to 1936. The latter year he was appointed Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the British Western Pacific Territories, posts he held until 1938, and then served as Governor of Jamaica from 1938 to 1943 and as Governor of Nigeria from 1943 to 1947. Richards was made a CMG in 1933, a KCMG in 1935 and a GCMG in 1942. In 1947 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milverton, of Lagos and of Clifton in the City of Bristol.

Lord Milverton died in October 1978, aged 93. He was succeeded in the Barony by his eldest son Fraser Arthur Richard Richards.

Preceded by Sir Arthur George Murchison Fletcher	Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the British Western Pacific Territories 1936–1938	Succeeded by Sir Harry Charles Luke
Preceded by Charles Campbell Woolley (acting)	Governor of Jamaica 1938–1943	Succeeded by William Henry Flinn (acting)
Preceded by Alan Burns	Governor of Nigeria 1943–1948	Succeeded by John Stuart Macpherson
Preceded by New creation	Baron Milverton	Succeeded by Fraser Arthur Richard Richards