Arthur Grote (29 November 1814 – 4 December 1886) was an English colonial administrator.
Life
He was born on 29 November 1814 at Beckenham in Kent, England. He was the son of George Grote (1760–1830), a London banker, and Selina Peckwell (1775-1845) who was the daughter of the Rev. Dr Henry Peckwell (1747-1787) and Bella Blosset of Co. Meath, from a well-connected Huguenot family.[1] An elder brother George Grote (1794–1871) became a distinguished politician and historian of Greece, and another brother John Grote was a moral philosopher at Cambridge.