Brigadier Sir Robert Arundell, KCMG, OBE was a British diplomat who became Governor and Commander in Chief of the Windward Islands and later Governor of Barbados and acting Governor-General of the West Indies.
Robert Duncan Harris Arundell was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and at Brasenose College, Oxford
Arundell joined the Colonial Service, eventually becoming Assistant Chief Secretary, Uganda. He was seconded to the Forces in 1941 for appointment to occupied territory administration, and, in 1945, was Chief Civil Affairs Officer, Middle East, with the rank of Brigadier.
In 1946 Arundell was appointed British resident member in Washington of the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission and head of the British Colonies Supply Mission, later to become resident member in Washington of the British national section of the Caribbean Commission. He later reverted to his appointment in Uganda.
Arundell was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of the Windward Islands in succession to Sir Arthur Grimble and later Governor of Barbados and acting Governor-General of the West Indies. He retired in 1960.
In 1962, Arundell was appointed delimitation commissioner to make recommendations for the division of the Zanzibar Protectorate into constituencies for the Legislative Council elections, and for their delimitation in accordance with the report of that year’s Zanzibar constitutional conference.