Arthur Arnold
1833–1902
Historian and politician. Appointed assistant commissioner and subsequently government inspector of public works, 1863. Published History of the cotton famine in 1864. Edited the Echo, an evening newspaper, 1868–75. MP for Salford, 1880–5. Alderman, London County Council, 1889–1902; chairman, 1895–6. Knighted, 1895.
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DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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