Brian Freeston Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Sir
Brian Freeston
Order:43rd
Office:Governor of the Leeward Islands
Term Start:1943
Term End:1947
Predecessor:Sir Douglas Jardine
Successor:W. R. Macnie (Acting)
Order1:16th
Office1:High Commissioner for the Western Pacific
Monarch1:George VI
Term Start1:1945
Term End1:21 March 1947
Predecessor1:Sir John Rankine (Acting)
Successor1:John Fearns Nicoll (Acting)
Order2:18th
Office2:Governor of Fiji
Monarch2:George VI
Term Start2:1 January 1945
Term End2:21 March 1947
Predecessor2:Sir John Rankine (Acting)
Successor2:John Fearns Nicoll (Acting)
Order3:2nd
Office3:Secretary General of the Pacific Commission
Term Start3:12 November 1951
Term End3:12 November 1954
Predecessor3:William D. Forsyth
Successor3:Ralph Clairon Bedell
Birth Date:11 August 1892
Birth Place:Brentford, Middlesex, England
Death Place:Bromley, Kent, England
Birthname:Leslie Brian Freeston
Nationality:British
Serviceyears:1914-1919
Rank:Captain
Unit:London Regiment

Sir Leslie Brian Freeston (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 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.

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