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| death_date = 1956
| address = Lyndhurst, Theydon Bois, Epping<br />Ocean Island, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony [1921]
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| membership = ordinary fellow <br />Local correspondent from 1921.12.18-1930.02.25| left = 1930 struck off
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=== House Notes ===
1920.12.14 proposed by H.J. Braunholtz, seconded by T.A. Joyce 14 Dec<br />1921.11.15 On the motion of Mr Braunholtz seconded by Capt. Joyce it was resolved to appoint Mr Grimble as Local Correspondent for the Gilbert Islands<br />1921.12.18 It was resolved to appoint Mr Arthur Grimble Local Correspondent for the Gilbert Islands<br />1930.01.21 it was resolved to remove the following names from the list of Fellows owing to arrears of subscriptions: Messrs Arthur Grimble, W.R. Humphries, Charles Frederick Jackson, J.B. Kittredge, Major Erskine Martin, Samuel T. Moses, Robert Neill, J. Hunter Shaw, C.W. Shorland, Roy George Townend<br />1930.02.25 It was resolved to delete the following names from the list of Local Correspondents, M. Leon Coutil, A. Grimble, Ven. 1920Archdeacon Shaw<br /><br />District Officer, Gilbert and Ellice Islands; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Seychelles
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir Arthur Francis Grimble, KCMG (Hong Kong, 11 June 1888 – London, 13 December 1956) was a British civil servant and writer. <br />He was educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He then went to France and Germany for postgraduate studies. After joining the Colonial Office in 1914, he became a cadet administrative officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, of which he became resident commissioner in 1926. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) on 1 January 1930.[1] Specialist in the myths and oral traditions of Kiribati people, he learned the Gilbertese language. <br />He remained there until 1933, after which he served as Governor of the Seychelles (1936–1942) and of the Windward Islands (1942–1948). <br />After retiring and moving to Britain in 1948, he became a writer and broadcaster. He wrote A Pattern of Islands (London, John Murray 1952, published in US as We chose the Islands) and Return to the Islands (1957) which were best-sellers. In 1956 a film Pacific Destiny was based on his experiences. A Pattern of Islands was republished by Eland, London in 2011, ISBN 978-1-906011-45-1. Both Grimble's daughter Rosemary and his son-in-law, Commander Adrian C. C. Seligman, published books of their own.[2] <br />The best book on his scientific work on the Gilbertese culture has been published by Henry Evans Maude, Tungaru Traditions: writings on the atoll culture of the Gilbert Islands, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1989, ISBN 0-8248-1217-4 <br />
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