Modern English biography

81–3, _portrait_. LEA, WILLIAM (1 son of William Lea of Stone, Warwickshire). _b._ 1 Dec. 1820; ed. Rugby and at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 6 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 14 April 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1859; V. of St. Peter’s, Droitwich 1849–87; hon. canon of Worcester 1858–81; archdeacon of Worcester May 1881 to death; author of Sermons on the prayer book preached in Rome 1866; Small farms, how they can be made to answer by fruit growing 1872; Church plate in the archdeaconry of Worcester 1884. _d._ Orchardlea, Droitwich 24 Sep. 1889. LEACH, ALFRED. L.S.A. 1883; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1884; M.D. and C.M. Aberdeen 1888; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1889; assistant house surgeon Rotherham hospital; house phys. Bath hospital; phys. Pimlico road free dispensary, London to death; invented a flexible cautery; a good linguist, speaking Arabic, Italian and French; author of The quadrangle by moonlight, or meditations in Marischal college. Aberdeen 1879; The letter H, past, present and future: a treatise with rules for the silent H, and notes on WH. 1880. _d._ 21 Belgrave road, London 14 Sep. 1892 aged 35. LEACH, JONATHAN. _b._ 1784; ensign 70 foot 7 Aug. 1801, captain 1804; captain 95th rifles 1 May 1806; major rifle brigade 9 Sep. 1819, sold out 24 Oct. 1821; lieut.-col. in the army 18 June 1815; C.B. 22 June 1815; served in the West Indies 1803–5, at siege of Copenhagen 1807, in the Peninsula and France 1808–14, present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; author of Rough sketches of the life of an old soldier 1831; Sketches of the services of the rifle brigade from its formation to Waterloo 1838; Rambles along the Styx 1847. _d._ Worthing 14 Jany. 1855. LEACH, RICHARD HOWELL (2 son of Thomas Leach of 58 Doughty st. London). _b._ 1814; entered office of Registrar of court of chancery 1832, senior registrar 1868–82; largely assisted in drawing up the Chancery funds rules of 1872 and 1874; one of the editors of H. W. Seton’s Forms of decrees in equity 2 ed. 1854, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1862 and 4 ed. 2 vols. in 3, 1877–9. _d._ Ernstein house, Tunbridge Wells 4 Aug. 1883. LEACH, WILLIAM TURNBULL. _b._ Berwick-on-Tweed 2 March 1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; pastor of St. Andrew’s presbyterian church, Toronto 1832; joined Church of England and became the first incumbent of St. George’s, Montreal 1841; fellow, dean of the faculty of arts, professor of logic and moral philosophy and Molson professor of English literature in University McGill coll. Montreal; canon of Ch. Ch. cath. Montreal 1854–65; archdeacon of Montreal 1865 to death; author of Discourse on the nature and duties of the military profession 1840; Introductory lecture for the Mercantile Library association 1854. _d._ 16 University st. Montreal 13 Oct. 1886. LEADAM, THOMAS ROBINSON. _b._ 22 Nov. 1809; ed. Merchant Taylors’ sch. and at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.S. 1832; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1837; author of Case of hydrophobia treated homœopathically 1849; Homœopathy as applied to the diseases of females and of early childhood 1851; The diseases of women homœopathically treated 2 ed. 1874; A popular treatise on the safe management of labour 1876. _d._ 1879. LEADBETTER, JOHN. _b._ Penicuik on the Esk river 2 May 1788; clerk in a Glasgow firm, became a partner; established John Leadbetter & Co., linen manufacturers 1815, had branch houses in Dundee and Belfast; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1844–5; erected a building for the Glasgow Mechanics’ institution; chairman of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway opened 1842; retired from business