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{{Infobox person
|name        = Sir Arthur Benson
|image       = 
|caption     = 
|birth_name  =Arthur Edward Trevor Benson
|birth_date  = {{Birth date|1907|12|21|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Johannesburg
|death_date  = <!-- {{Death date and age|1910|4|24|1849|4|3|df=yes}}--> 1987 aged 79
|death_place = Honiton, Devon, England
|other_names = 
|known_for   = [[Governor of Northern Rhodesia]]
|occupation  = Colonial Administrator
|nationality = United Kingdom
}}
'''Sir Arthur Edward Trevor Benson''' GCMG (21 December 1907 – 1987) was a British colonial administrator and governor.<ref name="obit" />

==Early life==
Benson was born in Johannesburg on 21 December 1907 the son of an Anglican clergyman.<ref name="obit" /> Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford he joined the colonial service in 1931.<ref name="obit" /> 

==Colonial service==
Benson was sent to [[Northern Rhodesia]] (now [[Zambia]]) as a cadet later moving on to the Secretariat in Lusaka.<ref name="obit" /> During the Second World War he returned to London and was attached to the Cabinet Office.<ref name="obit" /> After the war he returned to Northern Rhodesia and the Luwingu outstation.<ref name="obit" /> In 1948 he became Chief Secretary of the Central African Council and in 1951 he was promoted to Chief Secretary of Nigeria.<ref name="obit" /> In 1954 he was appointed [[Governor of Northern Rhodesia]] until he retired in 1959.<ref name="obit" />

==Retirement==
He became a Justice of the Peace in Devon from 1962 to 1966 and he was also elected an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College.<ref name="obit" />

==Family life==
Benson had married Daphne and they had two daughters, he died in 1987.<ref name="obit" />

==References==
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<ref name="obit">"Sir Arthur Benson." Times [London, England] 19 Oct. 1987: 18. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Aug. 2012.</ref>
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  before=Sir [[Gilbert Rennie]]|
  title=[[Governor of Northern Rhodesia]] | years=1954–1959|
  after=Sir [[Evelyn Dennison Hone]]
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