Leonard Leary

Leonard Poulter Leary CMG MC QC (24 March 1891 – 11 April 1990) was a New Zealand lawyer and writer. He was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, on 24 March 1891.^[1]

Leary was appointed Queen's Counsel on 7 February 1952.^[2] In the 1973 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, for services to the law.^[3] In 1977, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal.^[4]