Modern English biography

(1876). LEAHY, PATRICK (son of Patrick Leahy, civil engineer). _b._ near Thurles, Tipperary 31 May 1806; ed. Maynooth; C. of Scartheen, Cashel; professor of theology St. Patrick’s coll. Thurles, pres. of college; one of secretaries of synod of Thurles 22 Aug. 1850, priest of Thurles; preb. of diocese of Cashel, then precentor; vice-rector of Catholic univ. of Ireland at establishment 18 May 1854, also professor of sacred scripture 1854–7; archbishop of Cashel 27 April 1857 to death, consecrated 29 June; issued address condemning agrarian murders 16 May 1869; cathedral at Thurles built by his energy at cost of £45,000, commenced 1857, consecrated 21 June 1879, when 21 bishops and 280 priests were present. _d._ near Thurles 26 Jany. 1875. _bur._ Thurles cathedral. 3 Feb. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 139 (1875). LEAKE, JOHN MARTIN (eld. son of John Martin Leake of Thorpe near Colchester, Essex, _d._ 7 April 1836 aged 97). _b._ 5 Dec. 1773; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1797, bencher 1836 to death; chairman of Essex quarter sessions. _d._ Thorpe hall, Essex 16 May 1862. LEAKE, SIR LUKE SAMUEL (youngest son of Luke Leake of Stoke Newington, Middlesex). _b._ 1828; went to Western Australia 1833, member of legislative council of W.A., and the first speaker 26 June 1872 to death; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1876. _d._ Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 1 May 1886. LEAKE, ROBERT MARTIN. Ensign 14 foot 2 Oct. 1805; captain 63 foot 14 Feb. 1811, major 18 July 1822 to 26 Oct. 1824 when placed on h.p.; general 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ Woodhurst, Oxted, Surrey 26 Aug. 1873. LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN (brother of John Martin Leake 1773–1862). _b._ Bolton row, Mayfair, London 14 Jany. 1777; 1 lieut. R.A. 14 Aug. 1794, lieut.-col. 29 July 1820, sold out 1823; served in West Indies 1794–9 and with Turkish army in Egypt 1800; made a general survey of Egypt 1801–2; surveyed the Morea and Northern Greece 1805–7; sent on a mission to Ali Pacha 1808; sent as resident to the Swiss confederation 1815; granted £600 per annum 5 Jany. 1812 in consideration of his services in Turkey since 1799; F.R.S. 13 April 1815; F.R.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 26 June 1816 collected in Greece, bronzes, vases, gems and coins, now in the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge; author of The topography of Athens 1821, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1841; Journal of a tour in Asia Minor 1824; An historical outline of the Greek revolution 1825, 2 ed. 1826; Numismata Hellenica 1854, supplement 1859; author with C. P. Yorke of Les principaux monumens Egyptiens du musée Britannique 1827. _d._ Brighton 6 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. London. _J. H. Marsden’s Memoir of W. M. Leake_ (1864); _Numismatic Chronicle_, _xx_ 35–8; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xi_ 7–9 (1860). LEAKEY, CAROLINE WOOLMER (4 dau. of the succeeding). _b._ Exeter 8 March 1827; lived at Hobart Town, Tasmania with her married sister 1847–53; wrote in The Sunday at Home 1854, Girls Own Paper and other periodicals; established the Exeter Home and rescue 1861 and worked for it to 1881; author of Lyra Australis, or attempts to sing in a strange land 1854; The broad arrow, being passages from the history of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer. By Oline Keese 1859, new ed. 1886; God’s Tenth 1861, the first of a series of new year addresses 1861–81; Fine weather Dick and other sketches 1882. _d._ Exeter 12 July 1881. _Clear Shining Light, a memoir of C. W. Leakey. By Emily Leakey_ (1882). LEAKEY, JAMES (son of John Leakey of Exeter, wool merchant). _b._ Exeter 20 Sep. 1775; painter at Exeter of portraits, miniatures, landscapes and small interiors; painted miniatures in oils on ivory; lived in London 1821–5; exhibited 12 pictures at R.A. 1821–46, including The Marvellous Tale 1821, The Fortune Teller 1822 and The Distressed Wife 1846. _d._ Exeter 16 Feb.