Arthur Gaitskell
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Sir Arthur Gaitskell {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CMG}} (23 October 1900England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 – 8 November 1985) was a British administrator of the East Africa Royal Commission.
Family life
He was born in Rangoon, Burma, British India,New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947 to Arthur Gaitskell (1870–1915), of the Indian Civil Service, and Adelaide Mary ({{nee}} Jamieson) Gaitskell (died 1956), whose father, George Jamieson, was consul-general in Shanghai and prior to that had been Judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan. His brother was Hugh Gaitskell.
Career
He was chairman of the Sudan Gezira Board which had oversight of the Gezira Scheme.{{cite book|last1=Rupert Hall|first1=A.|last2=Bembridge|first2=B. A.|title=Physic and Philanthropy: A History of the Wellcome Trust 1936-1986|date=1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|page=70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KvU8AAAAIAAJ&q=sir+arthur+gaitskell&pg=PA70|isbn=9780521326391}} He was appointed to the East Africa Royal Commission (1953–55).{{cite book|url=http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/CommissionReports/E-A-Royal-Commission-1953-1955.pdf|title=East Africa Royal Commission Report 1953-5|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|location=London}}
Publications
- Gaitskell A. (1959) Gezira: A Story of Development in the Sudan, London: Faber & Faber
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Category:People educated at Winchester College
Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford
Category:British colonial governors and administrators in Africa
Category:Anglo-Egyptian Sudan people
Category:British expatriates in British Burma
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