Walter Guillebaud

Walter Henry Guillebaud CBE (2 July 1890 – 1 November 1973) was a British civil servant and forester.

He was born on 2 July 1890, the son of The Rev. Ernest Guillebaud (1856–1907), Rector of Yatesbury, and Mabel Louise Marshall (1850–1912), who was a sister of the economist Alfred Marshall. His elder brother Harold became a missionary; his twin brother Claude William became an influential economist at the University of Cambridge; and his younger brother Cyril died in 1915. Walter studied at Repton School, Victoria College, Manchester, and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he read natural sciences. he became its research officer and six years later its divisional officer.

By the late 1940s, Guillebaud had been "the leading figure in forest research since the early twenties". He served as president of the Institute of Foresters of Great Britain from 1945 to 1947 and published ten articles in its journal, Forestry. The forester J. A. B. Macdonald recalled him as "cadaverous in appearance [but] nevertheless gentle, retiring and timid by nature... e was definitely a scholar by preference, and I doubt if there was very much that was really original either about his work or his thoughts". Nevertheless, the Commission contended that "his valuable work ... plac[ed] [the Commission's] research efforts on a firm footing". He died on 1 November 1973.