Sir Arthur Gaitskell (23 October 1900 – 8 November 1985) was an administrator in the
British Empire
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.
Family life
He was born in
Rangoon, Burma
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, British India, to Arthur Gaitskell (1870–1915), of the
Indian Civil Service
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Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...
, and Adelaide Mary Jamieson Gaitskell (died 1956), whose father, George Jamieson, was
consul-general
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in
Shanghai
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and prior to that had been Judge of the
British Supreme Court for China and Japan. His brother was
Hugh Gaitskell.
Career
He was chairman of the Sudan Gezira Board which had oversight of the
Gezira Scheme
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.
He was appointed to the
East Africa Royal Commission (1953-5).
Publications
*Gaitskell A. (1959) ''Gezira: A Story of Development in the Sudan'', London: Faber & Faber
References
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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