Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith

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Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith PC (6 July 1832 - 11 May 1918) was a British politician, academic and man of letters.

He was a member of William Ewart Gladstone's second administration from 1880 to 1883 and served as Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons) between 1886 and 1893.

Courtney was born at Penzance, Cornwall, the eldest son of John Sampson Courtney, a banker, and Sarah, daughter of John Mortimer.

Two of his brothers, John Mortimer Courtney (1838-1920), and William Prideaux Courtney (1845-1913), also attained public distinction, the former in the government service in Canada (from 1869, retiring in 1906), rising to be deputy-minister of finance, and the latter in the British civil service (1865-1892), and as a prominent man of letters and bibliographer.

He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was Second Wrangler and first Smith's prizeman, and elected a fellow of his college.