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Name: PRITCHARD, Leslie Francis Gordon MBE
Birth Date: 10 May 1918 Loralai, Baluchistan, Pakistan
Death Date: 9 Sep 1977 Wadhurst, Sussex
First Date: 1946
Profession: DO Kenya 1946; Private Sec. to Gov. 1954-56; Perm. Sec. African Affairs 1956; Sec. to Cabinet 1959-60
Married: In Weymouth 1941 Diana Edmee Wheler b. 4 Sep 1918 Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh, India, d. 10 Dec 2003 London
Children: Caroline Jane (1943); three more dau.
Book Reference: Colonial
War Service: Military service 1939-46, Lieut.-Col.
School: Blundell's School and Guy's Hospital
General Information:
Living in Battersea 1938 - electoral register
Terence Gavaghan, Of Lions and Dungbeetles, 1999 He was a trimly elegant man with thickly combed auburn hair, feathered over the ears, above a very deep collar and blazer suggesting ex-army mufti, which indeed was so, as he was one of the 'baby colonels' on Mountbatten's staff. I was sorry when he soon chose to take a top position with Gallaghers Tobacco in Rhodesia.