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Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson (1884-1940) was a British colonial administrator, soldier, and politician. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1903 and served as an officer in the British Army in India. He was transferred to the Indian Political Department and subsequently sent to the Persian Gulf. Wilson was the British civil commissioner in Baghdad in 1918–20. Although he was credited with improving the country’s administration, he was criticized for his violent repression of the 1920 Iraqi revolt against the British. At the 1919 Paris Peace ...