Leslie Paul
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Leslie Paul, writer and founder of the Woodcraft Folk.
Born in Dublin in April 1905, Leslie Paul grew up in South East London. After the first world war he became deeply involved with scouting and related youth movements. After a dispute with Kibbo Kift leadership, mainly John Hargrave in 1925, some south London co-operative groups challenged Hargrave's authoritarian tendencies over his refusal to recognise a local group called "The Brockleything" and broke away from the Kindred forming the still active Woodcraft Folk.
In 1951 he wrote an autobiography called "Angry Young Man", a title which became a phrase used to describe a generation of British writers, including Kingsley Amis, Colin Wilson and authors of the "kitchen sink dramas",
W. H. Saumarez Smith, ‘Paul, Leslie Allen (1905–1985)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
