Leslie Stacey obituary
My father, Leslie Stacey, who has died aged 96, was a leftwing entrepreneur dedicated to the arts, sport and community activities.
He was born in London, the son of Frederick Stacey (who also used the name Roy), a City trader, and his wife, Edith (nee Rance), a piano teacher. At the age of 13 Leslie spent a year in hospital with osteomyelitis and underwent surgery on both legs. Despite having to learn to walk again, he became a good tennis and cricket player. He attended Merchant Taylors’ School for Boys, London. Although he showed academic promise, his father took him out of school six months before his final exams and found him a job on the Stock Exchange, which provided Leslie with the material for a book, The Small Man’s Guide to Profitable Investing, which was published under the pseudonym A Clifton Danvers in 1947.
