Frederick Barcham Leney (29 November 1876 – 25 July 1921) was an English brewery executive and amateur cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1905.Carlaw, pp. 331–332. (Retrieved 21 December 2020.)

Leney was born at Wateringbury near Maidstone in Kent in 1876 and was educated at Bradfield College where he was in the school cricket and association football teams.The Bradfield College Register, fifteenth edition, 1909, p.152. Oxford: Holywell Press. (Available online. Retrieved 24 October 2018.)Lewis, Paul (2014). For Kent and Country, pp.241–243. Brighton: Reveille Press. He played for Kent's Second XI between 1903 and 1906 and played club cricket for Wateringbury Cricket Club, which he captained, The Mote and for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).Frederick Leney, CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 October 2018. He made his only Kent First XI appearance in 1905 against Oxford University.

Leney's father Augustus had established the Phoenix Brewery at Wateringbury in 1843 and Frederick, the eldest son, went into the family business after leaving school, becoming a Director by 1911.Leney Family , Wateringbury Historical Society. Retrieved 24 October 2018. At the outbreak of World War I he joined the British Red Cross as a Red Cross Searcher. He served with the organisation in France and Egypt until December 1916 when he was discharged and returned to run the brewery, his father having died in a hunting accident the previous year.Lewis op. cit., p.49.

Leney died suddenly at the Railway Hotel in Galway in July 1921 aged 44.Deaths, The Times, 1921-07-28, p.1.Frederick Leney, Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 October 2018. His uncle, Herbert, played four first-class matches for Kent.Herbert Leney, Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 October 2018. The family business, which had been renamed Frederick Leney & Sons in 1896, was taken over by Whitbread in 1927 and then by Fremlin's Brewery in the 1960s.Why he's here for the beer trays..., Kent Messenger, 16 July 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2018. It operated until 1981, although the site has since been used as a distribution depot for Whitbread.Hales I (2013) Old Maidstone's Public Houses from Old Photographs, p.31. Stroud: Amberley. Richmond L, Turton A (1990) The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records, pp.209–210. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (Available online. Retrieved 24 October 2018.)

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