Prime Minister of Bahawalpur | |
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In office 1948–1952 | |
Monarch | Sir Sadiq Mohammed Khan V Abbasi |
Preceded by | Sir Richard Marsh Crofton |
Succeeded by | A.R. Khan |
Personal details | |
Born | Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now West Bengal, India) | 4 November 1902
Died | 16 June 1991 England | (aged 88)
Nationality | British |
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur John Dring KBE CIE JP (4 November 1902 – 16 June 1991) was the second Prime Minister of the princely state of Bahawalpur (now in modern Pakistan).[1] He was also the senior member of the Indian Political Service in the last decades of the British Raj, Assistant Private Secretary to the Governor-General of India and an advisor to governments on plebiscites for two former British colonies in Africa. Dring Stadium, the site of the second test cricket match of the India-Pakistan test series in 1955, is named after him. He was called John throughout his life.[2]