A biography of Arthur Dobbs, the Colonial Governor of North Carolina from 1754 to 1765, is presented and discusses his contribution in the discovery of the Venus Flytrap around 1758. It informs that he was born on April 2, 1689 in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, he was married to Justina Davis, granddaughter of Governor James Moore of South Carolina and mentions the of Dobbs and Davis meandering through the meadows where flytraps grow.