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Journal 25 Oct. 1879 pp._ 663–4. LEARMONTH, ALEXANDER (1 son of the succeeding). _b._ Edinburgh 26 Aug. 1829; ed. at Eton, matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 17 March 1847; a student I.T. 1847; cornet 17 lancers 21 Aug. 1849, major 30 Sep. 1856, lieut.-col. 1 July 1859, sold out same day; served in the Crimea and in the Indian mutiny; hon. col. Midlothian rifle volunteers 18 June 1879 to death; M.P. Colchester 1870–80. _d._ 44 Park lane, London 10 March 1887. _The Times 11 March 1887 p._ 8. LEARMONTH, JOHN. _b._ 1789; coach builder 4 Princes st. Edinburgh, where he made a large fortune; built at his own expense the Dean bridge across the water of Leith, finished in 1833; lord provost of Edinb. 1832–3; contested city of Edinb. 31 May 1834. _d._ 6 Moray place, Edinb. 17 Dec. 1858. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 152–3, _portrait_. LEASH, WILLIAM. _b._ England 1812; a clerk and book-keeper; a clerk in Edinburgh, returned to England about 1839; Congregational minister at Dover to 1846, at Esher st. Kennington, London 1846–57, at Ware, Herts., then at Maberly chapel, Kingsland 1865; edited the Christian Weekly News; edited the Christian Times 1864, and The Rainbow a magazine 1864–5; author of The Hall of Vision, a poem in three books. Manchester 1837; Philosophical Lectures. Dover 1846; The great redemption, an essay on the mediatorial system 1849; The beauties of the Bible 1852, 2 ed. 1856; Lays of the future 1853. _d._ Sandringham road, West Hackney, London 6 Nov. 1884. _Struggles for life: an autobiography_ (1864). LEATHAM, WILLIAM HENRY (2 child of Wm. Leatham, banker, _d._ 1842). _b._ Wakefield 6 July 1815; entered his father’s bank 1834; banker at Wakefield and Pontefract 1836, retired 1851; contested Wakefield 9 July 1852; M.P. for Wakefield 2 May 1859 by three votes, unseated on petition and writ suspended until 1862; M.P. for Wakefield 1865–8; M.P. for West riding of Yorkshire, southern division 1880–5; a Quaker but joined Church of England in 1843; purchased Hemsworth hall near Pontefract 1851; author of Poems 1840; Strafford, a tragedy 1842; Oliver Cromwell, a drama 1843; The Batuecas, also Francisco Alvarez and other poems 1844; Tales of English life and Miscellanies 2 vols.