Arthur Mooring
Sir
Arthur Mooring (
November 23,
1908 -
1969) was educated at Bedford Modern School and
Queens' College, Cambridge before entering the Colonial Service in
1931. He served there for a number of years in
Nigeria before joining the Royal West African Frontier Forces, serving in West
Africa,
India and
Burma. he was mentioned in dispatches and gained the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel. Following the
Second World War, he returned to Nigeria and rose to become the Deputy Governor of the Western region. In
1959 he became the British Resident in
Zanzibar, a position he held until independence in
1963.
