Oswald Raynor Arthur

Sir (Oswald) Raynor Arthur (16 December 1905 – 4 December 1973) was a British colonial administrator.

Arthur was the son of Sigismund Arthur (himself a grandson of Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet) and Constance Hobhouse (a daughter of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Baronet). He was educated at Charterhouse School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and on 8 May 1935, he married his cousin, Mary, a daughter of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. He later joined the British administration in Cyprus, becoming the island's Chief Commissioner in 1948 and then moved on to the Americas and became Colonial Secretary of Bermuda from 1951, Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1954 and then as Governor of the Bahamas until 1960.

Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Geoffrey Clifford
Governor of the Falkland Islands
1954–1957
Succeeded by
Sir Edwin Arrowsmith
Preceded by
The Earl of Ranfurly
Governor of the Bahamas
1957–1960
Succeeded by
Sir Robert de Stapeldon