Peter le Cheminant, CB (29 April 1926 – 25 July 2006) was a British civil servant.
[1] A graduate of the London School of Economics, le Cheminant was an officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve before entering the Civil Service in the Ministry of Power in 1949.
[1][2] While le Cheminant held the latter office, the Head of the Home Civil Service, Sir Robert Armstrong, delegated the day-to-day running of the service to him.
[3] After retiring from the civil service, le Cheminant was, finally, Director-General of the General Council of British Shipping from 1985 to 1991.
[1] Le Cheminant was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1976 Birthday Honours[4] and published his memoirs in Beautiful Ambiguities: An Inside View of the Heart of Government (London: The Radcliffe Press, 2001).