George Arthur

Lieutenant-General Sir George Arthur, Baronet of Upper Canada KCH PC (21, June, 1784 - 19, September, 1854) was a British colonial administrator, diplomat, military officer, soldier, statesman and veteran of the Anglo-Ottoman War and the European Coalition Wars. During his career Arthur served as fourteenth Superintendent of the Colony of British Honduras, fourth Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land, seventh Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Upper Canada and forty-seventh Governor of the Province of Bombay.

Arthur's administration deployed military forces throughout the Colony of British Honduras to suppress the slave trade, the Colony of Van Diemen's Land during the Anglo-Palawa War and the northwest British Raj during the Anglo-Afghan War, emancipated the Miskito people of central America from slavery, established the Grant Medical College of Mumbai and penal colonies on the Maria & Tasmania Islands, imposed martial law and the death penalty for violent crimes in the Colony of Van Diemen's Land, managed the construction of the Mumbai-Pune Railway, the Hobart City Pier and the River Derwent Causeway, prohibited enslavement in the Colony of British Honduras, repelled the U.S. Invasion of 1838 in the Colony of Upper Canada and suppressed the activities of the bushranger gangs on the island of Tasmania.

Arthur personally authored the Penal Code of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land, fought alongside imperial British forces during the Anglo-Ottoman War and European Coalition forces during the Coalition Wars, implemented immigration restrictions which prohibited non-Britons from migrating to the Colony of Van Diemen's Land, inaugurated the Grant Medical College of Mumbai, managed allotted land reservations for allied Beringian tribes in the Dominion of Canada, oversaw the resettlement of the Palawa peoples of Van Diemen's Land to the islands of the Bass Strait, presided over two-hundred-sixty executions of felons amongst the aboriginal and colonial populations in the Colony of Van Diemen's Land and four executions of rebel leaders in the Colony of Upper Canada, reformed policing operations in the Colony of Van Diemen's Land and served as Crown liaison to the Beringian tribes of the Kanienkehaka Confederacy.