Sir Arthur Gaitskell (23 October 1900 – 8 November 1985) was a British administrator of the East Africa Royal Commission.

Family life

He was born in

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, 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

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in Shanghai 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 was Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until ...

Career

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

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. He was appointed to the East Africa Royal Commission (1953–55).

Publications

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

References

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 expatriates in British Burma Companions_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George {{UK-bio-stub