Neville Leese OBE DSO (23 March 1872 – 22 June 1948) was an English first-class cricketer, miner and British Army officer. The son of the cricketer and politician Joseph Leese, he was born at Preston in March 1872. He was educated at Winchester College, He later played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club in May and June 1895, making six appearances. His six matches yielded him 226 runs with a highest score of 59, which came against Derbyshire. He left for New Zealand in the same year to work as a miner, before travelling to British Columbia, where he was awarded the Royal Humane Society medal for saving life. Leese served in the Second Boer War as a sergeant with Lord Strathcona's Horse, gaining the Queen's South Africa Medal and clasp. After the war he left Canada for Mexi