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Glasgow men_, _ii_ 173–6 (1886), _portrait_. LEADBITTER, GEORGE. _b._ Hexham 1787; one of the officers at Bow st. police court 1832, much employed in post office and bank business; was 6 feet 2½ inches in height and weighed 19 stone; resided in Longacre; succeeded John Townsend (who _d._ 10 July 1832 aged 73) in heading the police who attended the king on public occasions; had 25 guineas a year from the Doncaster corporation to attend the autumn meetings and preserve order in the grand stand enclosure 1832–52 where he was the means of securing many criminals, also engaged at Epsom; defendant in case of Wood _v._ Leadbitter in Court of exchequer 1845 respecting his expelling from the grand stand by order of the stewards one Wood a defaulter; _killed_ by being overturned in a cab near The Bag of Nails tavern, 1 Victoria road, Pimlico 3 Dec. 1852. _bur._ Brompton cemetery. _Sporting Review_, _xxix_ 71–2, 292 (1853); _The Town_, _i_ 22 (1837); _Times 7 Dec. 1852 p._ 5 _col._ 3; _13 Meeson and Welsby’s Reports pp._ 838–56 (1845). LEADER, NICHOLAS PHILPOT (eld. son of Nicholas Philpot Leader _d._ 1836). _b._ 1808; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; M.P. co. Cork 1861–68; of Dromagh castle, co. Cork. _d._ London 31 March 1880. LEADER, ROBERT (son of Robert Leader of Sheffield, bookseller, _d._ 1861). _b._ Carver st. Sheffield 4 Oct. 1809; apprentice in office of Sheffield Iris to 1830; proprietor with his father of Sheffield and Rotherham Independent from Jany. 1830, sole proprietor 1842 till 1875 when he made it over to his two sons, editor till 1875; a town trustee 1860, a town councillor 1876 and alderman 1880. _d._ Moor End, Sheffield 31 Oct. 1885. _bur._ Burngreave cemet. 4 Nov. _Sheffield Independent 31 Oct._, 2, _5 Nov. 1885_. LEAF, WILLIAM. _b._ 1791 or 1792; warehouseman at 39 Old Change, city of London 1821–74; made a large collection of water-colour pictures and drawings, sold at Christie’s 6–8 May 1875. _d._ Park hill, Streatham common, Surrey 3 July 1874. LEAHY, ARTHUR (7 son of John Leahy of South Hill, Killarney 1770–1846). _b._ 5 Aug. 1830; 2 lieut. R.E. 27 June 1848, lieut.-col. 10 Dec. 1873 to death; present at battles of Alma and Inkerman; D.A.Q.G. for the R.E.; assistant director of works in fortification branch of the war office 1864; instructor of field works at school of military engineering, Chatham 13 Nov. 1871; second in command of the R.E. at Gibraltar, March 1876; colonel in the army 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Netley hospital, Southampton 13 July 1878. LEAHY, EDWARD DANIEL. _b._ London 1797; portrait and subject painter; painted portraits of Duke of Sussex, Marquess of Bristol and of many prominent Irishmen; exhibited 33 pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1820–52; lived in Italy 1837–43. _d._ Brighton 9 Feb. 1875. LEAHY, JOHN (brother of Arthur Leahy 1830–78). _b._ 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; called to bar in Ireland 1833; Q.C. 1 Aug. 1859; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Limerick 1864 to death. _d._ Newcastle West, Ireland 13 Oct. 1874. _Irish law times_, _viii_ 549, 553 (1874). LEAHY, JOHN PIERS (son of Daniel Leahy). _b._ Cork 25 June 1802; ed. at Cork and Bloomfield near Dublin; studied at Corpo Santo, Lisbon, entered order of St. Dominic there 8 Sep. 1817, professed 9 Sep. 1818; acting rector of Corpo Santo, Oct. 1829 to 1836; prior of Dominican convent, Cork 3 times; prior provincial of Irish Dominicans, June 1848; coadjutor bishop of Dromore 14 July 1854, consecrated in St. Mary’s cath. Cork 1 Oct. 1854; bishop of Dromore 29 Feb. 1860 to death; author of The book of the rosary to which is annexed the rule of the third order of St. Dominick. Dublin 1842. _d._ Newry 6 Sep.