Sir Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather KCMG KCVO (22 May 1919 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born British Conservative politician.

[3] He worked as an insurance broker in England and was secretary of the Central London branch of the Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians.

[2] Leather never held political office but was a popular speaker at Party Conference and other events, as well as on radio and television.

Poor health and the low pay for MPs forced Leather to retire from Parliament at the 1964 general election and enter business.

He returned to the political scene a few years later, as vice-chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, taking a leading role in fund raising and at Party Conference.

As Governor, his nickname was "Imperial Leather", a pun on his surname, position and the famous brand of soap.

During his time as Governor of Bermuda, Sir Edwin made a significant effort to include a number of influential Bermudians as part of the vice-regal household.

During the Second World War, Harold Leather was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (1943) for his work in coordinating the Red Cross parcel scheme in Canada.