Arthur Causton was born in Clapham Common, Surrey [now London], England on 4 February 1857. He was active as an architect, surveyor and civil engineer in London between the 1870s and the 1890s. A drawing of a row of shops in Norwood designed by Causton is illustrated in The Building News 4 March 1881 (unnumbered page between pp. 232-245); and a bedroom interior designed by him is illustrated in The Cabinet Maker and Art Furnisher March 1893 p.239.
In The Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer vol. 3, 1893 p. 69 it was reported that Causton had read a paper entitled "The advantages of adopting a general scheme in making improvements" at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Conduit Street, Regent Street, London
His address was given as 41 St. Thomas Road, Hackney, London in 1881 in 1881; 9 Spring Gardens, London in 1884; Westbury, Clapham Common in 1890; 13 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster in 1892.
Shops, Norwood, Surrey (1880-81); stables at Ashburn Mews, Gloucester Road, South Kensington (1883); St. Philip's church, Stepney, London (1892)
Plans for the British Home for Incurables on Clapham Road, Streatham designed by Causton is briefly discussed in Hospitals and Asylums of the World: Hospital Construction, with Plans and Bibliography by Henry C. Burdett (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1893 p. 285). It is not known if the Home was built.