{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} '''Sir Arthur Gaitskell''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CMG}} (23 October 1900<ref>''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''</ref> – 8 November 1985) was a British administrator of the East Africa Royal Commission.

==Family life== He was born in Rangoon, Burma, British India,<ref>''New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967''</ref><ref>''India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947''</ref> to Arthur Gaitskell (1870–1915), of the Indian Civil Service, and Adelaide Mary ({{nee}} Jamieson) Gaitskell (died 1956), whose father, George Jamieson, was consul-general in Shanghai and prior to that had been Judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan. His brother was Hugh Gaitskell.

==Career== He was chairman of the Sudan Gezira Board which had oversight of the Gezira Scheme.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rupert Hall|first1=A.|last2=Bembridge|first2=B. A.|title=Physic and Philanthropy: A History of the Wellcome Trust 1936-1986|date=1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|page=70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KvU8AAAAIAAJ&q=sir+arthur+gaitskell&pg=PA70|isbn=9780521326391}}</ref> He was appointed to the East Africa Royal Commission (1953–55).<ref name=Report>{{cite book|url=http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/CommissionReports/E-A-Royal-Commission-1953-1955.pdf|title=East Africa Royal Commission Report 1953-5|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|location=London}}</ref>

==Publications== *Gaitskell A. (1959) ''Gezira: A Story of Development in the Sudan'', London: Faber & Faber

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