Brian FreestonSir Leslie Brian Freeston was a British colonial official.CareerFreeston 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 Territories|Western Pacific] 1948–52; Secretary-General of the South [Pacific Commission] 1951–54. Freeston was knighted on 1 January 1945.