Edward Arthur Carr
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Edward Arthur Carr (7 April 1903 – 5 June 1966) was the Administrator of the Colony of Nigeria from 1947 until his retirement in 1954.[1]
Carr was born on 7 April 1903, the son of Edward Crossley Carr and Lizzie Emila Biggs.[1]
He married Margaret Alys Willson[1] in April 1930.
He joined the Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria in 1925 and was appointed Administrator of the Colony of Nigeria in 1947.[citation needed] In 1951, he was appointed a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.[2]
He attended Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton and Christ's College, Cambridge.[1][3]
Carr lived in Sandy, Bedfordshire; he died on 5 June 1966.[1]
