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.