Arthur Lewis Leon

Arthur Lewis Leon (1855 - 26 June 1927) was a stock broker and politician.

Arthur was the third son of George Isaac Leon, a stockbroker, and his wife Julia Ann née Samuel. His elder brother, Herbert Samuel, became a Liberal Party member of parliament, and was created a baronet in 1911.

The Local Government Act 1888 created an elected London County Council, and Leon was selected by the Limehouse Liberal Association as a candidate. When the election was held in January 1889, Leon was elected to represent the Limehouse Division of Tower Hamlets along with James Ambrose, both councillors sitting on the majority Progressive Party benches. Leon held the Limehouse seat for the Progressives until 1907, when both seats and control of the county council were won by the Municipal Reform Party. He returned to the council at the 1910 elections as a councillor for St Pancras North. He retired from the council in 1919.

He made two unsuccessful attempts to win a parliamentary seat for the Liberals at Croydon at the general elections of January and December 1910.

He died at his home in Haslemere, Surrey, in 1927, aged 72.