Sir Arthur Gaitskell (23 October 1900 – 8 November 1985) was an administrator in the

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Family life

He was born in Rangoon, Burma, British India, to Arthur Gaitskell (1870–1915), of the

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, and Adelaide Mary Jamieson Gaitskell (died 1956), whose father, George Jamieson, was

consul-general A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, as well as to facilitate trade and friendship between the people ...

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and prior to that had been Judge of the

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. His brother was

Hugh Gaitskell Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant, ...

Career

He was chairman of the Sudan Gezira Board which had oversight of the

Gezira Scheme The Gezira Scheme ( ar, مشروع الجزيرة) is one of the largest irrigation projects in the world. It is centered on the Sudanese state of Al Jazirah, just southeast of the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers at the city of Kha ...

. He was appointed to the

East Africa Royal Commission The East Africa Royal Commission was a commission set up by the British government to review issues of economic development in British colonies across British East Africa. The Commission was established by Royal Warrant on 1 January 1953. It cons ...

(1953-5).

Publications

*Gaitskell A. (1959) ''Gezira: A Story of Development in the Sudan'', London: Faber & Faber

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gaitskell, Arthur 1900 births 1985 deaths People educated at Winchester College Alumni of New College, Oxford British colonial governors and administrators in Africa Knights Bachelor Anglo-Egyptian Sudan people People from Yangon British people in British Burma