Major-General Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons KCIE CBE DSO (1884–1966) was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire Volunteer Light Infantry as an acting second lieutenant in 1904, and was given a full second lieutenancy in 1906. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1909 and to captain in 1915. He was a major by 1923, in which year he was awarded the DSO to add to his OBE. He was appointed a CBE in 1927 and was knighted with the KCIE in 1938, by which time he was a lieutenant-colonel. He served as governor of the North-West Frontier Province in 1939.[1]

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Political offices
Preceded by Chief Commissioner of Balochistan
1936–1937
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chief Commissioner of Balochistan
1938–1939
Succeeded by
Preceded by Governor of the North-West Frontier Province
1939
Succeeded by