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| birth_date = 1906
| death_date = 1987
| address = Kahuhia, PO Fort Hall, Kenya Colony, E. Africa [1935]<br />Kabare, PO Sagana, via Nairobi, Kenya Colony, E. Africa [1937]<br />P.O. Limuru, Kenya Colony [census]
| occupation = church
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| elected_AI = 1935.02.19
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=== House Notes ===
1935.01.22 nominated
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
b. 21 May 1906. Missionary<br />Leonard James Beecher CMG (21 May 1906 – 16 December 1987) was an English-born Anglican Archbishop.[1] He was the first Archbishop of the Province of East Africa, comprising Kenya and Tanzania, from 1960 to 1970.<br />He was educated at St Olave's Grammar School and Imperial College London and ordained an Anglican priest in 1929.[2][3]<br />He was a missionary of the Church Mission Society in the Diocese of Mombasa from 1930, working in the Highlands.[4] He rose in time to be Archdeacon, Canon and Assistant Bishop[5] of the Diocese before elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Mombasa.[6] He was Archbishop of the Province of East Africa, from 1960 to 1970.[7] A prominent member of the Royal African Society,[8] he retired in 1970 and died on 16 December 1987. He is buried in the cemetery at All Saints, Limuru.[9]<br />
