Roy Leffingwell

Born: 30 November 1886 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Died: 20 November 1952 in Los Angeles, California.

Roy Edward Leffingwell was born November 30, 1886, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and worked in various cities before settling in the Los Angeles, California area in the early 1920s. He was a professional composer who, during the 1930s, had hosted morning radio shows on Los Angeles stations KECA, KPAC, KFI, and KIEV. In the 1940s he composed two tunes for Aleister Crowley's French song and the American Anthem. Crowley considered the tune for the French Song to be "very first class."

He was a member of the Agape Lodge and took the Minerval and I° initiation into O.T.O. on 24 February 1938, and would in Crowley’s lifetime ultimately advance to the IX° in O.T.O. He also became an A∴A∴ Probationer on 23 September 1938. His wife, Reea Leffingwell, with whom he had four children, would join the O.T.O. some eighteen months after him.