Arthur Charles Pedley CB ISO (July 1859–16 December 1943) was a senior British civil servant.

Pedley was born in 1859, the son of Matthew Pedley of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, and Elizabeth Wayman (née Amory).[1] He was educated at Bedford Modern School.[2]

Pedley joined the Local Government Board for Ireland in Dublin in 1877.[1] In 1879 he transferred to the War Office, where he was to spend the rest of his career.[1] He was promoted to Acting Assistant Principal in the Pay Division in January 1900,[3] Assistant Principal in 1902 and Principal in 1913.[1] He retired in 1919.[1]

He was appointed Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) in the 1905 Birthday Honours and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1920 New Year War Honours.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e "Pedley, Arthur Charles, (1859–16 Dec. 1943)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U230293. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1.
  2. ^ Bedford Modern School of the Black and Red, by A.G. Underwood (1981), Published by Bedford Modern School, Bedford, 1981
  3. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36045. London. 22 January 1900. p. 6.
  4. ^ "No. 31713". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 1.

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