Brigadier Percival Scott Beves, CMG, CB (1863[1] or 1868[2] – 26 September 1924) was a British and South African military officer.

A year later he was already serving in India and Burma and shortly afterwards became an instructor at the Wargrave Military College in the United Kingdom.

During World War I, Beves was military governor of South West Africa, present-day Namibia, from 11 July 1915 to 30 October 1915.

Beves died in 1924 from complications resulting from a malaria infection he had contracted in East Africa.

[7] In 1916, Beves received the Order of Saint Stanislaus 2nd Class with Sword from the Russian Empire.