Sir William Hargreaves Leese, 2nd Baronet, JP (24 August 1868 – 17 January 1937) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.
The son of the cricketer and politician Sir Joseph Leese, he was born in August 1868 at Send, Surrey.
[5] Leese was an enthusiastic amateur actor when at Cambridge and was closely associated with the Footlights.
[3] By 1905, Leese was a partner in the legal firm Freshfields & Co., who were solicitors for the Bank of England.
[1] He succeeded to the Smyth baronetcy as the 2nd Baronet upon the death of his father in July 1914.