Percivale Liesching

Sir Percivale Liesching GCMG KCB KCVO (1895–1973) was a British civil servant who held two posts as Permanent Under-Secretary and was High Commissioner in South Africa.

Biography

Born in London on 1 April 1895, Liesching was educated at Bedford School and Brasenose College, Oxford. During World War I he served in the Rifle Brigade.^[1]

He held the posts of Permanent Under-Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1946–1948, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1949–1955, and High Commissioner in South Africa, 1955–1958.

He died in Sidcup, Kent, on 4 November 1973.

Sources

• "Liesching, Sir Percivale". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64154. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• LIESCHING, Sir Percivale, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)

References

1. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29334. p. 10365. 19 October 1915.