Leslie Brian Freeston

Sir (Leslie) Brian Freeston, KCMG, OBE (11 August 1892 – 16 July 1958) was a British colonial official.

Freeston was educated at Willaston School and New College, Oxford. After military service in the First World War he joined the then Colonial Office in 1919. He was Governor of the Leeward Islands 1944–48; Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner, Western Pacific 1948–52; Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission 1951–54. Freeston was knighted on 1 January 1945.^[1]

References

FREESTON, Sir (Leslie) Brian, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 6 Nov 2011