Constituency : Warrington 1906-10
Arthur took Warrington from the Tories.
Arthur was from a family of soap and candle manufacturers. They were originally Quakers but had moved towards Anglicanism.
Arthur was defeated in December 1910.
Arthur sold his stake in the company in 1911 and built a huge mansion in London on the proceeds.
Arthur was created a baronet in 1915.
Arthur was interested in the Balkans and wrote The Settlement of the Near East in 1922.
Arthur lost a fortune in a failed mining venture in Greece in the 1930s.
Arthur's wife Domini , a Greek tennis player and heiress , was an active Liberal herself and stood for Islington in 1929.
Arthur was a keen golfer, winning the French amateur open championship in 1905.
He died after falling out of a French train in 1938 aged 73.
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