Background
Arkwright was born in Bolton, and grew up in Lancashire. He is the son of Thomas Arkwright and Muriel Hague. He grew up in Bolton.
Arkwright was born in Bolton, and grew up in Lancashire. He is the son of Thomas Arkwright and Muriel Hague. He grew up in Bolton.
He attended the prestigious independent school, Ampleforth College, known as the Catholic Eton.
He gained a Bachelor in English in 1983 from Trinity College, Cambridge. Arkwright joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) in 1987. He was based in West Berlin (British Military Government near the Olympiastadion) from 1988–1991, seeing the overthrow of the Berlin Wall at first hand.
From 1993–1997 he was a First Secretary to the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations. From 1997–1998 he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France.
This led to him being a First Secretary from 1998–2001 at Paris. From 2001–2005 he was part of the United Kingdom Delegation to North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels.
Ambassador
Arkwright was British Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands 2009–2013. He was Director, Multilateral Policy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2013–2015, and was then appointed High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, taking up his post at Abuja in October 2015.
UKinNL YouTube channel
2011 interview.