Governor Arthur Francis Grimble was born in Hong Kong 1888. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read law. He then spent three years on the European continent acquiring fluency in French and German. He joined the colonial administrative service in 1914 and was posted to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, where he rose to be Resident Commissioner, before transfer in 1933 as Administrator of St Vincent. In 1936 he was appointed Governor of Seychelles. During his time in office, a new branch of the Boy Scout Association was opened at the St. Louis College in 1937 and started the Victoria Church Of England Schools. It was during his terms of office that five Arab leaders were deported to Seychelles owing to political troubles in Palestine. In 1942 was Governor of the Windward Islands. After his retirement in 1948 Grimble became a successful BBC broadcaster. He died in 1956.