Kenneth McLean

Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Graeme McLean KCB KBE (11 December 1896 – 5 June 1987) was a senior British Army officer who became Military Secretary.

[1] After the War he served in Ireland from 1919 and then with King George's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners in India from 1923.

[4] He was promoted to the acting rank of major-general on 26 April 1945, shortly before the end of World War II in Europe.

[1] He led the Committee of Inquiry into the conduct of the Army during the campaign against the Mau-Mau in Kenya and found that the troops had shown "a high sense of responsibility and application to duty" but also reported that "two instances of serious misconduct had occurred.

[1] In retirement he was a member of the Central Advisory Council on Education, the authors of the Crowther Report: Fifteen to Eighteen, the publication of which eventually led, in 1972, to the raising of the school leaving age to 16.