Arthur Wallace Skrine (1885–1966) was a British colonial administrator who was governor of Mongalla Province in the South of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1924 to 1929.[1]
Arthur Wallace Skrine | |
|---|---|
| Governor of Mongalla Province | |
| In office 7 November 1924 – 4 August 1929 | |
| Preceded by | Vincent Reynolds Woodland |
| Succeeded by | Francis Balfour |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 March 1885 |
| Died | 12 Jan 1966 |
Skrine was born on 21 March 1885, son of Duncan William Hume Skrine and his wife Amy, née Hanham, the third of five children.[2] He attended Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Oxford University.[3] In 1927 he married Evelyn (born in Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1894), daughter of Frederick Winterbotham.[4]
Joining the Sudan Political Service, Skrine served in Khartoum in 1908, in Fung Province from 1909 to 1912, in Dongola from 1913 to 1917 and in Kassala from 1918 to 1922. He was assistant to Willis in 1923–1924.[1] In December 1922, as deputy governor of Kassala province, he signed an agreement with Dr. Agenore Frangipani to rectify the border between Eritrea and Sudan. The British-Italian agreement was written in French, still the common diplomatic language.[5] The agreement was ratified through an exchange of notes between Benito Mussolini and ambassador Sir R. Graham on 19 May 1924.[6]
Skrine was governor of Mongalla from 1924 until 1929.[1] On 6 November 1929 he was granted the Insignia of the Third Class of the Order of the Nile.[7]
He died at the Stonehanger Nursing Home, Salcombe, Devon, on January 12 1966.[8]
Bibliography
edit- A. W. Skrine (1 December 1924). Notes regarding Chiefs Courts and Native Administration in Mongalla Province.
- A. W. Skrine (March 1929). Notes on Current Topics in Mongalla Province.
References
edit- ^ a b c Elisabeth C. L. During Caspers (1980). The Bahrain tumuli: an illustrated catalogue of two important collections, Volumes 47–48. Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te İstanbul. p. 230.
- ^ Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval, Melville Henry Massue (1994). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England. The Isabel of Essex volume. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 548. ISBN 0-8063-1434-6.
- ^ Old Glenalmond club (1929). The Glenalmond register: a record of all those who have entered Trinity college, Glenalmond, 1847-1929. Printed by T. and A. Constable for the Old Glenalmond club.
- ^ Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. "Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (Volume 2)". Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ "Accord anglo-italien relatif à la Rectification de la Frontière entre l'Ërythrêe et le Soudan" (PDF). UN Treaty. 26 December 1922. Retrieved 1 August 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Exchange of Notes approving the Agreement for the Rectification of a Section of the Eritrea-Sudan Frontier" (PDF). UN Treaty. 19 May 1924. Retrieved 1 August 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Whitehall, November 6, 1929" (PDF). The London Gazette. 8 November 1929. p. 7217. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ National Probate Calendar, England & Wales