Arnold LeeseArnold Spencer Leese (1878-1956) was a veterinary surgeon noted for his study of camels, but who from 1924 onwards turned his hand towards politics. An early member of the British Fascist party, becoming the first publicly elected Fascist Party councllor in Stamford. He formed a new organization, the Imperial Fascist League in 1929. His agitation landed him a six month jail sentence in 1936 on charges of "causing a public mischief." After going into hiding at the outbreak of the Second World War, he went into hiding, publishing pamphlets critical of the war. He was arrested in November 1940, detained under the infamous Regulation 18B law, and held without trial until 1944, when he was released on the grounds of ill-health. He was sent back to prison in 1947 on charges of helping escaped German prisoners of war who had been members of the Waffen SS. Read More Read Less