Lieutenant-General Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, KCH, PC (21 June, 1784 - 19 September, 1854) was Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras (1814-1822), Van Diemen's Land (now the State of Tasmania, part of Australia) (1823-1837) and later Upper Canada (1838-1841). George Arthur was born in Plymouth, England. He was the youngest son of John Arthur and his wife, Catherine, daughter of Thomas Cornish. Wikipedia
George Arthur passed his youth in “comfortable circumstances” in Plymouth, where his father, a wealthy brewer, had been elected mayor the year prior to his birth. On 25 Aug. 1804 George became an ensign in the 91st Foot and the following June he was prom www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37874
Sir George Arthur (1784 - 1854), by unknown artist (photographed by J. W. Beattie, 1896), courtesy of Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania. www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010034b.htm?hilite=georg...
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