Arthur Archer-Betham was born in Southport, Lancashire, England on 15 February 1893 and trained at Manchester School of Architecture, Cambridge School of architecture and at the Architectural Association Schools in London. In the early 1920s he was in partnership with Frederick William Rees as Rees & Archer-Bethem.
Archer-Betham was Assistant Consulting Architect to Government of Madras, India in 1920-21 and Architect to the Government of Sierra Leone, West Africa from 1925 to the early 1930s.
He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1920 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1924.
His address was given as 44, Park Lane, Croydon and 59, Oakley Street, Chelsea, London in 1923; Government Offices, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1925 and 1930; 102 Oakley Street, Chelsea in 1936; Housing Department, Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London in 1936; and 9 Meadowcroft Gardens, London 1971. He died in Richmond upon Thames, Middlesex on 3 October 1971
Who's Who in Architecture 1923. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1923