[1] Leney was born at Wateringbury near Maidstone in Kent in 1876 and was educated at Bradfield College where he was in the school cricket and association football teams.
[4] Leney's father Augustus had established the Phoenix Brewery at Wateringbury in 1843 and Frederick, the eldest son, went into the family business after leaving school, becoming a Director by 1911.
He served with the organisation in France and Egypt until December 1916 when he was discharged and returned to run the brewery, his father having died in a hunting accident the previous year.
[3][6] Leney died suddenly at the Railway Hotel in Galway in July 1921 aged 44.
[9] The family business, which had been renamed Frederick Leney & Sons in 1896, was taken over by Whitbread in 1927 and then by Fremlin's Brewery in the 1960s.