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All extra details are based on information supplied by the College Archivist (see Additional Information). This included the following biographical details: ' (1909) Born 20 February 1890, Blaby Rectory, Wigston, Leicestershire; son of Charles Montague Leakey, Medical Practitioner, and Agnes Edwards. Subject(s): Classics; BA 1912. Tutor(s): J R Tanner. Johnian Relatives: brother of Richard John Montague Leakey (1919). Educ: Stamford School; Ripon Clergy College. Career: Deacon 1913; Curate, St Paul, Devonport 1913-1914; Priest 1914; Curate, Charles, Plymouth 1914-1917; Temporary CF, 4th Class, RACD, until 1917. Awards: Marquess of Exeter Exhibition, SJC 1909. Died 23 June 1917 (at Dar-es-Salaam, of sunstroke).' Another biographical source (see References) adds: 'Disease was a constant threat...This fate befell another Johnian, Reverend Herbert Leakey, who had volunteered as an Army Chaplain in 1917. He was sent to Dar es-Salaam in East Africa. A letter to his children reached them on the day of his death — ‘There are tall palm trees everywhere. Ants are walking about over this sheet of paper, and long lizards are on the walls of the tent. This place when it was in German hands was bombarded by a British ship and you can still see the holes.’ He died of sunstroke.