Alan Leo

Leo's turn to character was finished in haste: fined at the Mansion House on 16 July 1917, he spent his August holiday at Bude rewriting his delineations as character reading, and died there on 30 August.

Bessie Leo, The Life and Work of Alan Leo (Modern Astrology Office, 1919), pp. 72 and 105-106

English astrologer and Theosophist (1860–1917) who co-founded The Astrologer's Magazine in 1890.

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Primary source

Bessie Leo, with a foreword by Annie Besant, The Life and Work of Alan Leo, Theosophist, Astrologer, Mason, 1919, Modern Astrology Office, London. P. 8 (Besant); pp. 30-32 (Lacey on founding The Astrologer's Magazine, 1890, and free horoscopes); p. 72 (death at Bude, 30 August 1917); pp. 105-106 (Mansion House, 16 July 1917, and the recasting at Bude)The 1917 conviction and fine, Leo's decision afterwards to recast his delineations as character reading, his death at Bude on 30 August 1917, and Besant's account of his astrology as a delineation of tendencies in a character.
when he was fined for fortune telling

Scholarship

Deborah Houlding, 'Prediction, Providence and Power of the Self', The Traditional Astrologer 17, 1998, Skyscript reprint, section on Alan LeoThe 1914 summons (29 April 1914) dismissed for lack of evidence, Leo's call to treat astrology as 'the science of tendencies', and the 1917 conviction with a £5 fine plus costs.
The case was dismissed for lack of evidence