Arthur Grimble

Sir Arthur Francis Grimble, KCMG (11 June 1888 – 13 December 1956) was a British Colonial Service administrator and writer.

Grimble was educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

He learned the Gilbertese language, and became a specialist in the myths and oral traditions of the Kiribati people.

[2] Grimble's scholarly work on Gilbertese culture is covered in Henry Evans Maude's book Tungaru Traditions: Writings on the Atoll Culture of the Gilbert Islands (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989, ISBN 0-8248-1217-4).

In 1931 Grimble designed the coat of arms of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, which was granted in 1937.