Edward Leathes

Edward Leathes (10 February 1801 – 11 February 1871) was an English army officer and cricketer.[1][2]

Leathes was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the fifth son of George Leathes of the 1st Royal Dragoons, and his wife Mary Moore; Venn gives the year of birth as 1797.[1][2] His brothers included John Francis Leathes of Herringfleet Hall, and the Rev. Frederick Leathes, Rector of Reedham.[3] He was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, and matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1815, where he kept just three terms. He became a Lieutenant in the 1st Royal Dragoons, having joined as a cornet in 1816. His father died in 1817.[1][3][4][5]

Normanston Court, on Lake Lothing, 1830 lithograph

Leathes bought Normanston(e) Hall, south-west of Lowestoft, in 1832.[6] He died 11 February 1871 at Normanston, and was buried at Herringfleet.[1][2]

Leathes was a cricketer with amateur status who was associated with Suffolk and made his first-class debut in 1830.[2]

Leathes married in 1823 Eliza Mary Galloway, daughter of John Galloway of Exeter. They had six sons and four daughters.[1][3] The youngest son, Philip, of the Suffolk Regiment, later resided at Normanston Hall.[7]

References
  1. "Leathes, Edward (LTS815E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. "Edward Leathes". CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  3. "Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.2, 1894 - Compilation of Published Sources - MyHeritage". Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  4. John Peile (25 September 2014). Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505–1905. Cambridge University Press. p. 379. ISBN 978-1-107-42606-1.
  5. Great Britain. War Office (1822). A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines. p. 126.
  6. "Lowestoft Heritage - North Lowestoft Research". Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  7. Walford, Edward (1892). The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 2 (32nd ed.). London: R. Hardwicke. p. 613.


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