Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Edward Stewart Holland Le Bailly KBE CB (18 July 1915 – 3 October 2010) was a Royal Navy officer who became director-general of intelligence and later a writer.
He attended the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, between 1929 and 1932 and joined HMS Hood as a midshipman.
Le Bailly led a campaign for his local pub in St Tudy, Cornwall, to be renamed after William Bligh who was born in the village.
[3] He wrote many letters to newspapers such as The Times[4] and The Daily Telegraph, often calling for British withdrawal from the European Union[5] which eventually happened after his death, but also sometimes on more whimsical matters.
[6] For his Eurosceptic views he was criticised by Auberon Waugh; after he joined with his fellow villagers in a petition asking for a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU,[7] Waugh denounced "terrified and resentful" Eurosceptics "mumbl[ing] their platitudes about British sovereignty".