Had 19 children by 9 wives.
Chief Arthur Edward Prest (February 10, 1906 – September 26, 1976) was an
Itsekiri politician of mixed heritage from the
Warri division of
Southern Nigeria. He was an officer of the Nigerian
police force prior to his nomination as a representative of the Warri district in the Western Regional House of Assembly.[1] In 1951, he declared his support for the
Action Group and was later made regional
minister at
Ibadan, he was subsequently appointed federal minister for communications in 1952.
He left the Action Group in 1957.
In 1971, he was involved in a prominent
court case. Then, he challenged the
Itsekiri Communal Lands Trust which wanted to use the purported overlord rights of the
Olu of Warri over lands in Warri. The overlord rights would have given the trust indirect ownership of all lands including overriding the rights of ownership of landlords. However, the communal lands trust lost the case
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http://chiefarthurprestfamily.ning.com/