Gavin Arthur

Gavin Arthur
Arthur, c. 1920
Born	Chester Alan Arthur III (1901-03-21)March 21, 1901 Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Died	April 28, 1972(1972-04-28) (aged 71) Fort Miley Veterans Hospital, San Francisco, California, US
Education	Columbia College San Francisco State College
Occupations	Astrologer sexologist
Spouses	Charlotte Joy Wilson ​ ​ (m. 1922; div. 1932)​ Esther Murphy Strachey ​ ​ (m. 1935; div. 1961)​ Ellen Jansen ​ (m. 1965)​
Parent	Chester Alan Arthur II (father)
Relatives	Chester A. Arthur (grandfather) William Lewis Herndon (great-grandfather)

Chester Alan "Gavin" Arthur III (March 21, 1901 – April 28, 1972) was an American astrologer and sexologist. He was the grandson of Chester A. Arthur, the twenty-first president of the United States. He received his early education from Columbia College and later joined the Philolexian Society. He left his college and participated in the Irish Republican Movement. During his time in Ireland, he began going by the name Gavin.

Arthur founded Dune Forum, a short-lived cultural magazine aimed to spread alternating religious and political ideologies. After his father's death, he inherited various official documents, including newspapers during the time of his grandfather's presidency and presidential memento. In the 1950s, due to financial instability, Arthur sold newspapers on the streets of San Francisco. In the 1960s, he published The Circle of Sex, where he claimed that he had developed sexual intimacy with Edward Carpenter. He also claimed that Carpenter had had sexual relations with American author Walt Whitman. Arthur died in 1972; he was the last living descendant of the Arthur family. Most of his papers and official documents were donated to the Library of Congress.