Arnold Spencer Leese | |
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Born | Arnold Spencer Leese 16 November 1878 Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England |
Died | 18 January 1956 (aged 77) London, England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Giggleswick School |
Occupation | Veterinarian |
Known for | Anti-Semitic writer and activist |
Notable work | A Treatise on the One-Humped Camel in Health and in Disease (1927), My Irrelevant Defence (1938), Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel Doctor (1951) |
Political party | British Fascists (1923-1925) National Fascisti (1925-1929) Imperial Fascist League (1929-1932) |
Arnold Spencer Leese (16 November 1878 – 18 January 1956) was a British fascist politician. Leese was initially prominent as a veterinary expert on camels. A virulent anti-Semite, he led his own fascist movement, the Imperial Fascist League, and was a prolific author and publisher of polemics both before and after the Second World War.