Christopher Noble

Christopher Noble (18 August 1902 – 20 July 1986) was an English surveyor who served as the ninth Surveyor-General of the Federated Malay States from 1953 to 1956.

On 13 July 1942 he enlisted in Melbourne in the Royal Australian Air Force and served as a flying officer.

[5] Upon his retirement he returned to England,[6] where he died 20 July 1982 in Little Common, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, at the age of 79.

Noble married Barbara Constance Watherstone (1908-2001), the daughter of Charles Watherstone (Assistant Under-Secretary of State and Director of Finance at the War Office) and Constance Eva née Clarke, on 3 November 1934 at St Mary's Church, Harrow on the Hill in northwest London.

[7] Noble's sister, Maude (1912-2003), was married to Watherstone's brother, David Charles,[8] who served as the Chief Secretary, Federation of Malaya and was knighted for his service in 1956.