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Arthur Christopher Watson (2 January 1927 – 7 May 2001) was a British colonial administrator and politician who served as
Governor of Montserrat
The governor of Montserrat is the representative of the British monarch in the United Kingdom's overseas territory of Montserrat. The governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government. The main role of the governor ...
, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands
The governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands is the representative of the British monarch in the United Kingdom's British Overseas Territory of Turks and Caicos Islands. The Governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British gov ...
and the British High Commissioner to Brunei.
Biography
Watson was born inChina
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, and educated at Norwich School
Norwich School (formally King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich) is a private selective day school in the close of Norwich Cathedral, Norwich. Among the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, it has a traceable history to 1096 as an episcop ...
from 1940 to 1945, Selwyn College in 1945, St. Catherine's College from 1948 to 1950, and London University
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from 1950 to 1951. Earning his Bachelor of Arts
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(BA) in 1950 and Master of Arts
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(MA) in 1953. Then he had a short career in the Royal Navy
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from 1945 to 1948, becoming a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
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(RNVR). He began work with Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS) Uganda
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from 1951 to 1963, becoming a District Officer
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at the same time in 1953. He retired as the Principal Assistant Secretary in 1961, Secretary in the Office of the Governor from March to October 1962, retired form HMOCS in 1963, and later First Secretary at the Commonwealth Relations Office on 4 June 1963, Consular
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A consu ...
in Karachi
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from 1964 to 1967, and the First Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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(FCO) In November 1967.
He served as Commissioner of Anguilla
Anguilla is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Sa ...
from 1971 to 1974. He was then the Governor
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of the Turks and Caicos
The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and no ...
from May 1975 until July 1978. He then served as Governor
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of Montserrat
Montserrat ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, wit ...
from 1985 until 1987. Watson was also the last British High Commissioner to Brunei
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...
before independence, serving from October 1978 until independence on 1 January 1984.
Honours
* Order of St Michael and St George
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Companion (CMG)
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