George Sydney Arundale

George Sydney Arundale, who later became president of the Theosophical Society, was educated by him as a child. Here is an excerpt from his autobiography in which he comments on the character of CWL, whom he knew from years of personal experience:

 "I am grateful that I was able to resume my training with C. W. Leadbeater in these later and more demanding years. It was then that I came to know his greatness, his modesty, his constant cheerfulness, his steadfast, unrequited affection, and his complete indifference and utter absence of resentment toward the flood of persecution that overwhelmed him through the machinations of those who were steeped in narrow-minded, cold self-righteousness. My blood boiled then, and it still boils today when I think of how the modern counterparts of the medieval Inquisition assailed him with their thoroughly evil insinuations, which were, of course, as false as the nature of those who spread them.

C. W. Leadbeater was a very noble, very wise, and very holy man, and he was crucified for exactly the same reasons as our Lord—his greatness, the fact that he towered infinitely above all his fellow men, was unbearable to the pygmies who tried to drag him down to their own vulgar and repulsive level. But enough of that. He remained untouched by the filth with which they tried to besmirch him, and they will receive their punishment in due course."

C. Jinarajadasa

C. Jinarajadasa, who later also became president of the Theosophical Society, emphasized several times in his writings that Charles Webster Leadbeater always behaved correctly and morally impeccably toward him during their time together as children. Jinarajadasa lived with Leadbeater in England from about 1889 to 1894, when Leadbeater taught him and Alfred Sinnett's son.

"During the years I lived in close contact with C. W. Leadbeater, I always found him to be morally upright and completely correct. I never witnessed any behavior that was even remotely inappropriate. His sincerity and integrity were unshakable throughout all those years.“

"He not only taught us spiritual and occult principles, but did so with a care and purity that inspired trust and confidence. I never felt that he abused his authority.“

– C. Jinarajadasa, personal memories & comments on The K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater, 1941

Russell Balfour-Clarke

Russell "Dick" Balfour-Clarke was closely associated with him from 1909 to 1914 and from 1924 until CWL's death in 1934. Due to the ongoing accusations against CWL, he wrote a written testimony about his integrity in 1976 as an old man. He wrote the following:

"I am 91 years old and one of the few people still alive who knew Colonel Olcott, A. B. and C. W. L. on June 2, 1976, and before I die, I must put on record that since my early childhood at boarding school and thereafter, I have been fully aware of the various sexual acts that can occur between boys and boys, men and boys, girls and girls, and between men and women, and that I am not a virginally innocent in this regard and therefore could not be easily deceived.

I therefore state that during my long and close association with C. W. L. in India, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and with all the young people who were placed in his care, I never saw or heard anything that would support the false allegations made by Mrs. Katherin [sic] Tingley and many others, some of whom never even met him. I always felt his influence to be an encouragement to self-control and freedom from any kind of sensuality. Krishnamurti, his brother, and other boys who were under the care and guidance of C.W.L. signed statements to the police in Sydney, Australia, to the same effect, as Mary Lutyens writes in her book "The Years of Awakening, Krishnamurti."