Arthur was a young man who stood on his own two feet and took on the world without fear. He challenged himself to always move forward and grasp the adventure ahead.
He was a university graduate, earning a first-class honours degree in philosophy from Nottingham University. He had a great wanderlust. At 27 he had travelled across Europe, watched the Aurora Borealis in Norway, lived in Spain, in Nepal and in South-East Asia. In New York Arthur earned a CELTA qualification, with which he taught English in Vietnam and Taiwan before travelling on to Thailand and Cambodia.
Wherever he was living, Arthur always worked hard to learn the local language, and with varying degrees of success he learned Spanish, German (he won a best student award in middle school), Arabic, Farsi and Vietnamese. He was also an aspiring artist, drawing and sketching extensively and taking classes to improve his skills. He was a prolific writer – at last count he had 9 journals - but most significantly he was a voracious reader with an extensive, eclectic library.
Arthur wanted to give so much to the world. He had registered for – and, characteristically, already begun to read towards – a Masters degree in International Relations at Northeastern University. He would certainly have made a positive contribution to the welfare of humanity, but his legacy to the world will now be spoken most eloquently in the words of those who were fortunate enough to have known and loved this gentle man.