Papers of Sir Edwin Porter Arrowsmith 1932-1965

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Papers of Sir Edwin Porter Arrowsmith 1932-1965

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The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House

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Sir Edwin Porter Arrowsmith, CMG (1950) KCMG (1959), was born on the 23 May 1909 and educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford. He was an Assistant District Commissioner in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (1932), and in various District posts (1933-1938), before transferring to the British West Indies, where he was Commissioner of Turks and Caicos Islands (1940-1946) and Administrator in Dominica (1946-1952). Arrowsmith returned to Africa for a 5 year period in 1952, ...