[2] Leete's career as a paid artist began in 1897, when the Daily Graphic accepted one of his drawings.

During the First World War Leete also drew two comics Schmidt the Spy and The Bosch Book, which ridiculed the German army.

[3] Leete died of a seizure, following a heart attack, at his home in Pembroke Square, London, in 1933.

He had suffered from high blood pressure and heart trouble, and had been taken ill three weeks earlier in Italy.

Jim Aulich, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, wrote of Leete that "His prolific output was characterized by its humour, keen observation of the everyday, and an eye for strong design.