Leslie Thompson (17 October 190 – 26 December 1987) was raised at what was then called the Alpha Cottage School and joined the West India Regiment as a bandsman. He moved permanently to England in 1929 and played in dance and jazz bands in clubs and theatres, toured with Louis Armstrong, and worked with the most significant black British swing musicians of the1930s, including the members of his all-black swing band which was taken over by Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson.