Sir John Henry Gladstone Leahy, KCMG (7 February 1928 – 17 November 2015) was a senior British diplomat.
For example, in April 1984, he was sent to Jamba in Angola to secure the release of 16 Britons who had been taken hostage by the Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi.
At the time, Savimbi's UNITA guerrilla movement was financed and supported militarily by the apartheid regime in South Africa.The mission was successful and Leahy brought the captives back to London.
On 2 March 1995, after many internal upheavals, the company board dismissed the controversial businessman (Tiny Rowland), one of the Joint Chief Executives.
It contains many original photographs and noteworthy mention of his extensive travels, including both personal and professional aspects of his life.