General Sir Arthur Borton GCB GCMG (20 January 1814 – 7 September 1893) was a British Army officer who went on to serve as Governor of Malta from 1878 to 1884.

[2] Borton was commissioned into the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot in 1832.

Promoted to full general in 1877,[4] he became Governor of Malta in 1878 before retiring in June 1884.

[7] Borton married Caroline Mary Georgina Close in 1850, daughter of Rev John Forbes Close of Morne, County Down.

[1] They had two sons: Arthur Close Barton, lieutenant-colonel Somerset Light Infantry, father of lieutenant colonel Arthur Drummond Borton VC and air vice-marshal Amyas Eden Borton, and Charles Edward Borton, lieutenant-colonel in the Norfolk Regiment, who served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and the Second Boer War.