 Driver was named after Arthur Driver, an engineer who came from Western Australia and was appointed by the Australian government as Administrator of the Northern Territory in 1946.The highlights of his five-year term include the rescue in 1947 of Bas Wie upon his stowaway arrival in Darwin from Indonesia and his term as the first President of the Legislative Council which begun in 1948.By this time, Driver had embarked on the decentralisation process of establishing Elliott as the focal point between Darwin and Alice Springs in the centre of the Territory.