Vernon Francis Leese OBE JP (20 February 1870 – 3 August 1927) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of the cricketer and politician Sir Joseph Leese, he was born at Kensington in February 1870.
[2] After graduating from Cambridge, Leese trained as a land agent on Mark Rolle's Devon estates.
He then served as private secretary to the 4th Marquess Camden from 1899 to 1901, before working at the estate of Hugh F. Locke King as resident agent from 1901 to 1905.
[1] From there he worked as a land agent at Hursley Park from 1905 to 1907, before becoming deputy–surveyor for the Forest of Dean until 1914, during which time he was also a justice of the peace for Gloucestershire.