Arthur Frederick Richards, 1st Baron Milverton GCMG (21 February 1885 – 27 October 1978), was a British colonial administrator who over his career served as Governor of North Borneo, Gambia, Fiji, Jamaica, and Nigeria.

He was educated at Clifton College in Bristol,[1] and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1907 with a BA.

He was the Acting General Advisor in Johore between 1929 and 1920, and from 1930 to 1933 he served as the governor of Northern Borneo.

He served as Governor of Fiji from 1936 to 1938, holding this office concurrently with the position of High Commissioner of the Western Pacific.

In 1947 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milverton, of Lagos and of Clifton in the City of Bristol.