Donald Fergusson

Sir John Donald Balfour Fergusson, GCB (26 August 1891 – 4 March 1963), commonly known as Donald Fergusson, was a British civil servant who as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture had directed the Food Production Campaign during the Second World War. Fergusson was educated at Berkhamsted School and Magdalen College, Oxford. At the beginning of the First World War he commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment, later transferring to the 1/1st Hertfordshire Regiment, and saw active service on the Somme and at the Third Ypres.