Eric Speed
Sir Eric Bourne Bentinck Speed, KCB, KBE, MC (26 January 1895 – 28 June 1971) was a British civil servant. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War, jointly with Sir Frederick Bovenschen from 1942 to 1945, and then until 1948.
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- 1895 births
- 1971 deaths
- Permanent under-secretaries of state for war
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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- People educated at Christ's Hospital
- King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry officers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
- Civil servants in the War Office
- Civil servants in HM Treasury
- Private secretaries in the British Civil Service