Eric Miéville

Sir Eric Charles Miéville GCIE KCVO CSI CMG (31 January 1896 – 16 September 1971) was a senior British civil servant who served as Assistant Private Secretary to George VI from 1937 to 1945, and who also served as Private Secretary to several Governors-General of India and Canada.

Eric Charles Miéville was born in Acton, London, England, the youngest son of Charles Ernest Mieville (1858–1940), a stockbroker and estate agent and Alice Huleat Garcia Bampfield (1864–1934). He was educated at St Paul's School, and joined the Far Eastern Consular Service in 1919 as a student interpreter of Chinese. From 1920 to 1927, he served as a private secretary and local vice-consul to the British Minister in Peking (Beijing).

In 1927, Miéville was appointed secretary to the Governor General of Canada, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, the Lord Willingdon, in which capacity he served until the end of Lord Willingdon's tenure in 1931; he was appointed a CMG in the 1930 New Year Honours list for his services. Subsequently, he accompanied Freeman-Thomas to India upon his appointment as Governor-General of India and continued to serve as his secretary until the latter's retirement in 1936. For his service as private secretary to the Viceroy, Mieville was appointed a CSI in 1933, and knighted with the KCIE in 1936. From 1935 to 1936, he concurrently served as secretary on the Viceroy's Executive Council.

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