Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Stanley Meek CMG (7 October 1883 – 14 August 1955) was a British Indian Army and Indian Political Service officer.

Meek was born in Larne, Ireland, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Bedford School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Indian Army on 21 January 1903.[1] In 1907, he joined the Bombay Political Department. He served as Military Governor of Basra from 1917 to 1919, for which he was mentioned in dispatches, and undertook a special mission to Tehama in Yemen in 1919, for which he was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in January 1920.[2] His final post was as Agent to the Governor-General in the Eastern States Agency from 1934 to 1937. He retired in 1938.

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  1. ↑ "No. 27517". The London Gazette. 20 January 1903. p. 390.
  2. ↑ "No. 31735". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 January 1920. p. 685.

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