Leo Abse was born on April 22, 1917 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. He was married to Ania Czepulkowska and Marjorie Iris Davies. He died on August 19, 2008 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.
Author of a "psychiatric biography" of Margaret Thatcher (published during the latter's premiership) which claimed that she had been motivated in her political career by a deep resentment, possibly unconscious, of her mother.
Well-known as a prominent Cardiff lawyer before embarking on a long political career with the Labour Party.