Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Stanley Meek CMG (7 October 1883 – 14 August 1955) was a

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and

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officer. Meek was born in

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, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at

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and the

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, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Indian Army on 21 January 1903. In 1907, he joined the Bombay Political Department. He served as Military Governor of

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from 1917 to 1919, for which he was

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, and undertook a special mission to Tehama in

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in 1919, for which he was appointed

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(CMG) in January 1920. His final post was as Agent to the Governor-General in the

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from 1934 to 1937. He retired in 1938.

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