Sir Leonard Ropner, 1st Baronet, MC TD DL (26 February 1895 – 12 October 1977) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Leonard's grandfather, Sir Robert, had come from Germany in 1857 and founded a fleet of merchant ships; as MP he represented Stockton-on-Tees.
He was educated at Oatlands, Harrogate and Harrow, obtaining a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge and took a degree in Political Economy.
[1] After the war he commanded the Durham Heavy Brigade of the Royal Garrison Artillery in the Territorial Army in the rank of major, and was later appointed their honorary colonel.
[citation needed] He returned to the House of Commons at the 1931 general election, for the safe Conservative seat of Barkston Ash in the West Riding of Yorkshire.