Sir Walter Ian Percival QC (11 May 1921 – 4 April 1998) was a British Conservative Party politician.
He was commissioned from Sandhurst into The Buffs in 1941 and served in the Second World War in North Africa and Burma, attaining the rank of Major.
Although coveting a Ministerial post, he was overlooked for the position he wanted in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher came to power, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
[1][2] He also called for the criminalisation of clubs and newsletters that existed for the purpose of allowing gay people to meet one another, opposed attempts to decriminalize homosexuality, and supported retaining imprisonment for life as the penalty for consensual anal sex.
In 1993 he became the head of a Trust to complete the hospital, following lengthy legal negotiations with Union Carbide while he was engaged as an attorney in the US law firm Sidley and Austin.