Sir Arthur Purves Phayre was a career British Indian Army officer who was the first Commissioner of British Burma, 1862–1867, Governor of Mauritius, 1874–1878, and author.
- Occupation
- naturalist, zoologist, coin collecting, numismatist
- Position held
- Governor of British Mauritius
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 7, 1812
- Died
- December 14, 1885
