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.