Arthur Parsons

Major-General Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons KCIE CBE DSO (1884–1966) was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire Volunteer Light Infantry as an acting second lieutenant in 1904, and was given a full second lieutenancy in 1906. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1909 and to captain in 1915. He was a major by 1923, in which year he was awarded the DSO to add to his OBE. He was appointed a CBE in 1927 and was knighted with the KCIE in 1938, by which time he was a lieutenant-colonel. He served as governor of the North-West Frontier Province in 1939.[1]

References
  1. Provinces of British India
Political offices
Preceded by
Ronald Wingate		 Chief Commissioner of Balochistan
1936–1937		 Succeeded by
Ronald Wingate
Preceded by
Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe		 Chief Commissioner of Balochistan
1938–1939		 Succeeded by
Sir Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe
Preceded by
Sir George Cunningham		 Governor of the North-West Frontier Province
1939		 Succeeded by
Sir George Cunningham


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