Leslie Brass

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Brass family monument, Brompton Cemetery

Sir Leslie Stuart Brass CBE (12 November 1891 – 17 November 1958), was a British lawyer and civil servant, who was Legal Adviser to the Home Office from 1947 to 1956.[1]

He was born on 12 November 1891 at 29 Trafalgar Square, Chelsea, London, the son of Lot Brass (1854-1937), mechanical engineer, and his wife, Elizabeth Harnor. He was educated at St Paul's School, and from 1910 to 1914 at Christ Church, Oxford.[1]

Brass died suddenly of a heart attack in Western Road, Hove, Sussex, on 17 November 1958, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery.[1]

The 1899 Brass family tomb, "a large and prominent memorial in an unusual Art Nouveau-influenced style" with sculpture by A. Stanley Young, is a Grade II listed funerary monument.[2]

Family[]

He was married to Jessie Buchanan.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Cubbon, Brian. "Brass, Sir Leslie Stuart (1891–1958)". ODNB. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  2. ^ Historic England. "Brass family tomb, Brompton Cemetery (1403338)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  3. ^ Brass grave, Brompton Cemetery
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