Leslie Daiken

Leslie Herbert Daiken (29 June 1912 – 15 August 1964) was an Irish advertising copywriter, editor, and writer on children's toys and games, in his youth in the 1930s a poet active in leftist politics and editor of the duplicated circular ''Irish Front''.

Beginning life with the name Yodaiken, Daiken was sometimes known to friends as Yod. He also published work under the name Ned Kiernan.

In the last year of his life, Daiken became a lecturer at the University of Ghana and died in post. Provided by Wikipedia