LEEDS, Robert. b. 1811; rented a large farm at Holkham and resided at Keswick Old Hall for many years; assisted in formation of company which built Agricultural hall, Islington 1861 and was chairman 1862, and chief mover in the annual horse shows there; chairman of Smithfield club, then vice president; oldest member of Farmers’ club; on council of R. Agricultural Soc. of England 1869–89. d. Norwich 27 June 1890. I.L.N. 12 July 1890 p. 53, portrait.
LEEDS, William Henry. b. 1786; engaged in commercial pursuits; an architectural critic 30 years; wrote much in the Foreign quarterly review and other periodicals; wrote many of the articles on architecture in the Penny Cyclopædia; published Moller’s Memorials of German-Gothic architecture, part 1 translated by W. H. Leeds 1836; Illustrations of the public buildings of London 1838; An essay on the present state of architectural study and the revival of the Italian style, Printed in Studies and examples of school of English architecture 1839 pp. 1–28; Rudimentary architecture, the orders and their æsthetic principles 1848, 2 ed. 1852; A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture, by sir W. Chambers, revised 1862. d. 26 Charlotte st. Portland place, London 1 May 1866.
LEEKE, Sir Henry John (son of Samuel Leeke of St. John’s, Isle of Wight). b. St. John’s 1794; entered navy 28 Sep. 1803; served in the Mediterranean during the war 1806; commanded the Myrmidon sloop on west coast of Africa 1819–22, where he surveyed 600 miles of coast; captain 27 May 1826; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 April 1835; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; flag captain to admiral sir John West at Devonport 1845–8; superintendent and commander-in-chief of Indian navy 23 March 1852 to 7 July 1857; bombarded Bushir in the Persian war 10 Nov. 1856; admiral 11 Jany. 1864; M.P. for Dover 1859–65; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 1 Oct. 1858. d. Uplands near Fareham 26 Feb. 1870. C. R. Low’s History of the Indian navy, ii 240–382 (1877).
LEEKE, William (brother of the preceding). b. 1798; ensign 52 light infantry 4 May 1815, lieutenant 1823, on h.p. 2 Sep. 1824; carried the regimental colours at Waterloo; ed. at Queen’s college, Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; C. of Westham, Sussex 1829–31; C. of Brailsford, Derby 1831–39; V. of Holbrooke, Derbyshire 1840–77; author of A few suggestions for increasing the incomes of many of the smaller livings. Derby 1838; The history of lord Seaton’s regiment, the 52nd light infantry, at Waterloo, with the author’s reminiscences of his military and clerical careers 2 vols. 1866–71. d. Holbrooke hall near Derby 1 June 1879.
LEEMAN, George (son of George Leeman of York). b. York, Aug. 1809; solicitor at York 1835 to death; head of firm of Leeman, Wilkinson and Leeman of York and Beverley; clerk of the peace for East Riding to death; alderman of York 1850, lord mayor 1853, 1860 and 1870; chairman of Yorkshire banking co.; chairman of North eastern railway Feb. 1874 to 1880; M.P. York 1865–68 and 1871–80; his statue erected near railway station at York. d. 3 Belmont terrace, Scarborough 25 Feb. 1882.
LEEMAN, Joseph Johnson (younger son of the preceding). b. Fulford near York 1842; solicitor at York 1865 to death; M.P. York 2 April 1880 to death. d. Acomb priory, York 2 Nov. 1883.
LEES, Asa (2 son of Samuel Lees of Oldham, machine manufacturer, d. about 1847). b. 1816; machine maker at Oldham about 1847–65 when he converted his business into a private company, the works were sold to a limited liability company in 1872, he received £112,000 for his share. d. Albert house, Ashton under Lyne 26 May 1882. Oldham Chronicle 3 June 1882 p. 6, col. 3.
LEES, Cathcart. b. 1810; M.B. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1837, F.K.Q.C.P. 1845; physician to Meath hospital to 1861 and lecturer on practice of medicine; phys. to Bank of Ireland to 1861; wrote many essays in Dublin Journal of medical science, Dublin hospital gazette, and the Quarterly Journal; author of Lectures on diseases of the stomach and indigestion. Dublin 1857. d. 17 Lower Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 16 Dec. 1861.
LEES, Charles. b. Cupar, Fifeshire 1800; studied art at Rome some years; portrait painter at Edinburgh; fellow of Royal Scottish academy 1835 where he exhibited regularly, treasurer 1865 and a trustee; two pictures by him of curling and golf matches were engraved; his picture Summer Moonlight, bait-gatherers, is in Scottish national gallery; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1832–63. d. 19 Scotland st. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1880. The Scotsman 1 March 1880 p. 4.
LEES, Edwin. b. Worcester 1800; printer and stationer at 87 High st. Worcester, retired early and became a local botanist; founded Worcester Literary and scientific institute 12 Jany. 1829, joint sec.; F.L.S., F.G.S.; one of the first to pay regard to forms of brambles, commemorated botanically by his discovery of Rubus Leesii; author of Christmas and the new year 2 ed. 1828, a masque in verse; Guide to the city and cathedral of Worcester. By Ambrose Florence; published The Worcestershire miscellany 5 numbers 1829; author of Botany of the Malvern hills 1843, 3 ed. 1868; The botany of Worcestershire 1867; The botanical looker-out among the wild flowers 1842, 2 ed. 1851; Pictures of nature around the Malvern hills 1856; Scenery and thought in poetical pictures of landscape scenes and incidents 1880. d. Greenhill Summit, Worcester 21 Oct. 1887. bur. Pendock. Journal of botany (1887) 384.