Governor of North Borneo
Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton took which position from 1930 to 1933?
Arthur Richards , 1st Baron Milverton Arthur Frederick Richards , 1st Baron Milverton ( 21 February 1885 – 27 October 1978 ) , was a British colonial administrator who over his career served as Governor of North Borneo , Gambia , Fiji , Jamaica , and Nigeria . Early life and education . Richards was born in Bristol in 1885 , the son of William Richards . He was educated at Clifton College in Bristol , and graduated from Christ Church , Oxford , in 1907 with a BA . Colonial service . Richards entered the Malayan Civil Service in 1908 . By 1921 , he had become the Acting 1st Assistant Colonial Secretary for the Straits Settlements . He served as Acting Under-Secretary of the Federated Malay States in 1926 , and became full Under-Secretary from 1927 to 1929 . He was the Acting General Advisor in Johore between 1929 and 1920 , and from 1930 to 1933 he served as the Governor of Northern Borneo . Following this , he served as Governor of the Gambia from 1933 to 1936 . He served as Governor of Fiji from 1936 to 1938 concurrently with High Commissioner of the Western Pacific . From 1938 to 1943 , he served as Governor of Jamaica . From 1943 to 1948 , he served as Governor of Nigeria . He was known in the Colonial Service as Old Sinister . He became the first Colonial Office official to be raised to the peerage while still in office . In 1986 , his former private secretary in Nigeria , Richard Peel , published a memoir of Richards , titled Old Sinister : A Memoir of Sir Arthur Richards . Honours . He was made a CMG in 1933 , elevated to KCMG in 1935 , and again to GCMG in 1942 . In 1947 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milverton , of Lagos and of Clifton in the City of Bristol . He was also appointed as K.St.J. , and was awarded the US Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm . Family . In 1927 , Richards married Noelle Bënda Whitehead ( 18 December 1904 – 11 September 2010 ) , daughter of Charles Basil Whitehead . He died in October 1978 , aged 93 , and was succeeded in the Barony by his eldest son Fraser Arthur Richard Richards .