Heartfelt tributes have been paid to "a whirlwind of a bloke" following his death, aged 77.
Leonard Mathew Cruickshank, who died December 28 last year, was a father to four daughters, two sons, 14 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Known as Leni, he was born on Valentine's Day 1945 and grew up in Toxteth. The only child of Elizabeth Hanning (of Irish and Sierra Leonean heritage) and William Redmond (of African and Native American heritage) Leni's mum lost touch with his father, who he never met as the US army refused to release him due to him being black.
