High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Desmond (c. 1859 – 26 January 1929), a.k.a. Arthur Uing, Ragnar Redbeard, Richard Thurland, Desmond Dilg and Gavin Gowrie, was a New Zealand politician, Australian anarchist, poet and author. Today Desmond is best remembered for his pseudonymously written books Might Is Right and Rival Caesars.