Lieutenant General Sir Henry Lowther Ewart Clark Leask KCB DSO OBE (30 June 1913 – 10 January 2004) was a senior British Army officer who served in World War II and held high command during the 1960s.

[2] He served in the Second World War becoming commanding officer of 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1944.

[2] He won the DSO for on a three-mile dash to capture two bridges over the River Po at San Patrizio.

[2] He was appointed General Officer Commanding 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division in 1964, and Director of Army Training at the Ministry of Defence in 1966.

[3] Their son Anthony (b.1943) followed his father into the services, joining the Scots Guards and rising to the rank of Major-General, before becoming a military historian.