Leonard James Beecher CMG, ARCS, FRAI (21 May 1906 – 16 December 1987) was an English-born Anglican archbishop.

He was educated at St. Olave's Grammar School and Imperial College London, ordained deacon in 1929 and priest in 1931.

He was a missionary of the Church Mission Society in the Diocese of Mombasa from 1930, working in the Highlands.

[5] He was appointed Archdeacon of Mombasa and a Canon (both 1945–1953)[6] and an Assistant Bishop of Mombasa:[7] he was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day 1950 (25 July) by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.

[13] A prominent member of the Royal African Society,[14] he retired in 1970 and died on 16 December 1987.