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Ian Percival
Sir Walter Ian Percival QC (11 May 1921 – 4 April 1998, aged 76) was a British Conservative Party politician.
==Background==
Percival was educated at Latymer Upper School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was commissioned from Sandhurst into The Buffs in 1941 and served in the Second World War in North Africa and Burma, attaining the rank of Major. He became a barrister, was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1948, and also worked as a part-time economics professor. He served as a councillor on Kensington Borough Council 1952-59. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1963, and was knighted in 1979.
He married Madeline Cooke in 1942, having met her in Burma, and had a son and a daughter.〔‘PERCIVAL, Rt Hon. Sir (Walter) Ian’, Who Was Who, A & C Black.〕 The family home was in Tenterden, Kent. On retirement, he supported several causes, including the establishment of a hospital in India after the Bhopal disaster. In 1993 he became the head of a Trust to complete the hospital, following lengthy legal negotiations with Union Carbide while he was engaged as an attorney in the US law firm Sidley and Austin.〔http://www.iced.org.au/files/iced/bhopal/injustice.html〕 He died before its completion.
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