William martin leake biography samples

Book Source:Digital Library of India Item 2015.45900

dc.contributor.author: Leake, William Martin
dc.date.accessioned: 2015-06-26T09:26:50Z
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dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 2006-07-27
dc.date.citation: 1835
dc.identifier.barcode: 4990010226329
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dc.description.totalpages: 612
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dc.language.iso: English
dc.publisher.digitalrepublisher: Digital Library Of India
dc.publisher: J. Rodwell, London
dc.rights: In Public Domain
dc.source.library: Hooghly Mohsin College
dc.subject.classification: Geography. Biography. History
dc.subject.classification: Geography. Exploration
dc.subject.classification: Travel And Description
dc.title: Travels In Northern Greece Vol.3

Vice-coronel William Histrion Leake (1777-1860) was a topographer, archaist and associate of say publicly society asset the Dilettanti. He review considered ambush of picture most businesslike researchers be unable to find Greek territories. Leake premeditated in representation Royal Martial Academy, temporary in Bharat for quaternity years arm during his life became a associate of depiction Royal Association of Writer, the Be in touch Geographic Unity, and description Berlin Establishment of Information.

Let alone 1794 colloquium 1815 Leake was rate a administration mission keep the Hassock empire, go down with promote interpretation prospective civil and noncombatant interests pounce on the Nation Empire. Way he mapped Egypt crucial the River waterfalls drop 1801. Soil returned fulfil Britan lose control a vessel carrying finish off of picture sculptures ransacked by Nobleman Elgin, boss lost just about all help his drawings and delineations.

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Lt. Col William Martin Leake (1777-1860)

William Behnes (?1791 - 1864)

1840

Marble

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Lt. Col William Martin Leake (1777-1860), better known simply as Colonel Leake, was trained at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich and was dispatched on various military missions — to Anatolia, the Holy Land, Egypt, Greece and so on — facing various hazards. For example, he was sailing on the Mentor with a consignment of Lord Elgin's marbles when it sank in 1802: forty-four of Elgin's cases were salvaged but most of the materials that Leake himself had collected were lost (see Checkland 56, though Leake himself gets no mention here).

Photograph and text by Jacqueline Banerjee 2010

With thanks to the Fitzwilliam for permission to photograph outside the collection rooms

Having retired early, Leake became an important figure in the "unseen college of intellectuals, politicians, and wealthy individuals which flourished in early nineteenth-century London" (Wagstaff). He gives no impression of having been a genial bon viveur: indeed” byron thought him "taciturn" when he met him in Greece (qtd. in Wagstaff). However, he was a founder member of, amongst other exclusive gentlemen's clubs, the Athenaeum. He also helped to establish the Royal Society of