Arthur Pedley
Arthur Charles Pedley was a senior British civil servant.
Pedley was born in 1859, the son of Matthew Pedley of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, and Elizabeth Wayman. He was educated at Bedford Modern School.
Pedley joined the Local Government Board for Ireland in Dublin in 1877. In 1879 he transferred to the War Office, where he was to spend the rest of his career. He was promoted to Acting Assistant Principal in the Pay Division in January 1900, Assistant Principal in 1902 and Principal in 1913. He retired in 1919.
He was appointed Companion of the Imperial Service Order in the 1905 Birthday Honours and Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1920 New Year War Honours.Footnotes
