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

Career

Freeston was educated at Willaston School and New College, Oxford. After service in the London Regiment of the British Army in the First World War^[1] 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.^[2]

Notes

Sources

• FREESTON, Sir (Leslie) Brian, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
• Sir Brian Freeston – Former Governor Of Fiji (obituary), The Times, London, 17 July 1958, page 12

External links

• Portraits of Sir (Leslie) Brian Freeston (1892-1958), Colonial governor at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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