The Leonards were a family of merchants long established in Bristol, dealing in rope and twine, tobacco, iron, paint, and wagons.
Henry Charles Leonard, Baptist minister of Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
The popularity of his A Book of Light Verse, published by Henry Frowde in 1910, quickly led on to The Pageant of English Poetry and The Pageant of English Prose for the Oxford University Press, which also commissioned a series of collections of specialist verse under the title Oxford Garlands, published between 1914 and 1915.
[1][4] Antony Maynard Leonard joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and in July 1943 was promoted to pilot officer.
[5] He was killed in action on the night of 26 November 1943, when his plane was attacked by a German fighter and brought down near Frankfurt.