Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur John Dring KBE CIE JP (4 November 1902 – 16 June 1991) was the second Prime Minister of the princely state of Bahawalpur (now in modern Pakistan).

[7] The Channel 4 historical drama Indian Summers revolves around a fictional character called Ralph Whelan who was the Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India in Shimla in 1932–1935.

The character of Ralph Whelan has several similarities with the real-life John Dring, who was in the same political position in the same place at the same time, with the same family history.

[16] He supported and encouraged the Nawab in the developing over a dozen treaties with the British, in the mutual interests of both parties.

In 1955, he was appointed as advisor to the Governor of the Gold Coast on possible plebiscite arrangements in Togoland,[21] drawing on his experiences in the transition of Bahawalpur from princely state to part of Pakistan.

[23] On his return to the UK, Dring was appointed a Justice of the Peace and was the Chair of the Havant Bench for several years.

After Marjorie's death in Oxford in 1943, Dring married Alice Deborah Marshall (née Cree) in Shimla in 1946.

[2] John and Deborah Dring were two of the subjects of Charles Allen's oral histories of British India, Plain Tales from the Raj.