Eric Leadbitter

Sir Eric Cyril Egerton Leadbitter KCVO (8 June 1891 – 25 February 1971) was a British civil servant and author. In 1937 he was made Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. In 1942 he became Clerk of the Privy Council, holding the position until 1951. He was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1951 Birthday Honours, having been made knight bachelor in 1946. He married Irene Lloyd in 1918.

Leadbitter was the author of three books:

• The Road to Nowhere (1916)
• Perpetual Fires (1918)
• The Evil that Men Do (1923)