Allan Arthur (civil servant)

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Alan James Vincent Arthur {{postnominals|country=GBR|MBE|DL}} (16 September 1915 – 22 May 1998) was High Sheriff of Essex from 1971 to 1972.‘ARTHUR, Allan James Vincent’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U176584, accessed 4 Nov 2016]

The son of Colonel Sir Charles Arthur,{{postnominals|country=GBR|MC|VD}}, he was educated at Rugby School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was on the swimming and water polo teams. He was with the Indian Civil Service from 1938 to 1947; and the Sudan Political Service from 1948 to 1954. Returning to Essex he was then a sugar broker and commodity broker. He was Mayor of Chelmsford from 1977 to 1978. From 1978 to 1985 he was one of Essex's Deputy Lieutenants.