eventually became the Pennine Way. He chaired the Grey Court Fellowship, founded in 1935 to provide holidays for unemployed workers and their families, and towards the end of his life set up the Family Holidays Association, to convert derelict Government training camps into holiday chalets. He was also a supporter of the Campaign for National Parks, the National Trust and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England. Honours and legacy He was awarded the OBE in 1937, for his work in promoting outdoor activities. In his 1947 book, The Englishman's Holiday, J. A. R. Pimlott ranked Leonard alongside Thomas Cook and Billy Butlin as a pioneer of the holiday movement. He died at Conwy in 1948, aged 84, and was survived by his wife and daughter. Memorial plaques were set up on Conwy Mountain and on Catbells near Keswick in the Lake District, describing him as "the 'Father' of the Open-Air Movement in this Country", and bearing the epitaph: "Believing that 'the best things any mortal hath are those which every mortal shares' he endeavoured to promote 'joy in widest commonality spread'." The quotes come from the Quaker poet Lucy Larcom, and William Wordsworth. References 1864 births 1948 deaths English activists English Christian pacifists English Christian socialists English Congregationalist ministers English environmentalists Members of the Order of the British Empire Walkers of the United Kingdom Congregationalist socialists Calvinist pacifists People from Finsbury Park