Edward Arthur Carr

Edward Arthur Carr (7 April 1903 – 5 June 1966) was the Administrator of the Colony of Nigeria from 1947 until his retirement in 1954.[1]

Carr was born on 7 April 1903, the son of Edward Crossley Carr and Margaret Alys Willson.[1]

He joined the Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria in 1925 and was appointed Administrator of the Colony of Nigeria in 1947. In 1951, he was appointed a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.[2]

He attended Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton and Christ's College, Cambridge.[1][3]

Carr lived in Sandy, Bedfordshire; he died on 5 June 1966.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 ‘CARR, Edward Arthur’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 26 Nov 2011
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 39104. p. 5. 29 December 1950.
  3. ↑ Exhibitioner, 1922; BA 1925; MA


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