Modern English biography

_v_ 209–213 (1881); _Colburn’s New monthly mag. vol._ 168 _p._ 421, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1880 p._ 41, _portrait_. LEATHER, JOHN TOWLERTON (1 son of James Leather, colliery proprietor, _d._ 1849). _b._ Yorkshire 30 Aug. 1804; engineer of Sheffield waterworks 1833; contractor with Mr. Waring 1839, made Chester and Crewe section of London and North Western line; sole contractor for Erewash valley line of the Midland 1847–50; constructed the dam and the siphons for the repairs of the Middle Level 1862; constructor of the Portland breakwater 1849–56 and of the Sea forts at Spithead 1861–72; made the extension of the Portsmouth dock yard costing £2,000,000, 1867–77; M.I.C.E. 23 Feb. 1836; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1869; sheriff of Northumberland 1875. _d._ Leventhorpe hall near Leeds 6 June