Percival Waterfield

Sir Alexander Percival Waterfield, KBE, CB (16 May 1888 – 2 June 1965), commonly known as Percival Waterfield, was an English civil servant. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered the civil service in 1911 and served as the Treasury Remembrancer for Ireland from 1920 to 1922; from 1939 to 1951, he was First Civil Service Commissioner.[1][2] Waterfield was one of 4 members of the Woodhead Commission (officially the Palestine Partition Commission) of 1938.[3] His son was the diplomat John Waterfield.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Sir Percival Waterfield", The Times (London), 4 June 1965, p. 14. Gale CS237463748.
  2. ^ Richard A. Chapman, Waterfield, Sir (Alexander) Percival", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2008). Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  3. ^ "3 Named to Palestine Partition Commission; Sir John Woodhead Chairman; to Sail in April". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1 March 1938. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
  4. ^ "John Waterfield", The Times (London), 21 January 2003, p. 29. Gale IF0502666777.
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