{{Short description|English civil servant (1888-1965)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Waterfield in 1938
'''Sir Alexander Percival Waterfield''', KBE, CB (16 May 1888 – 2 June 1965), commonly known as '''Percival Waterfield''', was an English civil servant. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered the civil service in 1911 and served as the Treasury Remembrancer for Ireland from 1920 to 1922; from 1939 to 1951, he was First Civil Service Commissioner.<ref>"Sir Percival Waterfield", ''The Times'' (London), 4 June 1965, p. 14. {{Gale|CS237463748}}.</ref><ref>Richard A. Chapman, [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-66876 Waterfield, Sir (Alexander) Percival"], ''The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2008). Retrieved 11 August 2021.</ref> Waterfield was one of 4 members of the Woodhead Commission (officially the Palestine Partition Commission) of 1938.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 1, 1938 |title=3 Named to Palestine Partition Commission; Sir John Woodhead Chairman; to Sail in April |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/3-named-to-palestine-partition-commission-sir-20hn-woodhead-chairman-to-sail-in-april |access-date=2026-02-24 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref> His son was the diplomat John Waterfield.<ref>"John Waterfield", ''The Times'' (London), 21 January 2003, p. 29. {{Gale|IF0502666777}}.</ref>
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