Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton

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Arthur Frederick Richards, 1st Baron Milverton CMG, KCMG, GCMG (21 February 1885–27 October 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 married Noella Benda, daughter of Charles Basil Whitehead, in 1927. He died in October 1978, aged 93, and was succeeded in the Barony by his eldest son Fraser Arthur Richard Richards.

Government offices
Preceded by Herbert Richmond Palmer	Governor of The Gambia 1934–1936	Succeeded by Thomas Southorn
Preceded by Sir Arthur George Murchison Fletcher	High Commissioner for the Western Pacific 1936–1938	Succeeded by Sir Harry Charles Luke
	Governor of Fiji 1936–1938
Preceded by Charles Campbell Woolley, acting	Governor of Jamaica 1938–1943	Succeeded by William Henry Flinn, actng
Preceded by Alan Burns	Governor of Nigeria 1943–1948	Succeeded by John Stuart Macpherson
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Baron Milverton	Succeeded by Fraser Arthur Richard Richards