Brian Freeston

{{Short description|British colonial official}}

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{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}

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| name = Sir Brian Freeston

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|OBE}}

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| office = Governor of the Leeward Islands

| monarch = George VI

| 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

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| term_start3 = 12 November 1951

| term_end3 = 12 November 1954

| predecessor3 = William D. Forsyth

| successor3 = Ralph Clairon Bedell

| birth_date = {{birth date|1892|08|11|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Brentford, Middlesex, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1958|07|16|1892|08|11}}

| death_place = Bromley, Kent, England

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| birthname = Leslie Brian Freeston

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| nationality = British

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| serviceyears = 1914–1919

| rank = Captain

| unit = London Regiment

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Sir Leslie Brian Freeston {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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{{London Gazette |issue=28937 |supp=y |page=8228 |date=13 October 1914}} 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.{{London Gazette |issue=36866 |supp=y |page=6 |date=1 January 1945}}

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Sources

  • [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U237444 FREESTON, Sir (Leslie) Brian], Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • [http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS203643633&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Sir Brian Freeston – Former Governor Of Fiji] (obituary), The Times, London, 17 July 1958, page 12