Christopher Eastwood

Christopher Gilbert Eastwood CMG (21 April 1905 – 14 October 1983) was a member of the British civil service.

He was educated at Eton College, then studied at Trinity College, Oxford before joining the civil service in 1927, in the Colonial Office.

He was Private Secretary to George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd and Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, who were successively Secretary of State for the Colonies (1940–41).

He was Principal Assistant Secretary at the Cabinet Office from 1945 and 1947.

Between 1947 and 1952, and again between 1954 and 1966, he was Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Colonial Office; between 1952 and 1954, he was the Commissioner of Crown Lands.