Arthur Frederick Richards, 1st Baron Milverton 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[1] and of Gambia from 1933 to 1936. He was educated at Clifton College. 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.
Arthur Richards married Noelle Bënda Whitehead (18 December 1904 – 11 September 2010)[2], 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 | ||
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| Preceded by John Lisseter Humphreys |
Governor of North Borneo 1930–1933 |
Succeeded by Douglas James Jardine |
| 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 |
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| Preceded by Charles Campbell Woolley, acting |
Governor of Jamaica 1938–1943 |
Succeeded by William Henry Flinn, acting |
| Preceded by Bernard Henry Bourdillon |
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 |