George Arthur Padmore

George Arthur Padmore (July 16, 1915 – April 15, 2005) was a Liberian diplomat.

Padmore was born on July 16, 1915,[1] the grandson of General George Stanley Padmore,[2] and the son of James Stanley Padmore and Mary Louise Barclay-Padmore, who had emigrated to Liberia from Barbados.

After Padmore's parents died in a canoeing accident on the Saint Paul River,[3] he became the adopted son of the politician Edwin Barclay and his wife Euphemia.

In April 1939 Padmore married Edith Mai Wiles,[1] who would later serve as Liberia's first woman cabinet minister.

[5] Padmore died at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland on April 15, 2005.