| Authorised form of name | Leake; William Martin (1777 - 1860) |
| Dates | 1777 - 1860 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Bolton Row, Mayfair, London, England |
| Date of birth | 14 January 1777 |
| Place of death | Brighton, Sussex |
| Date of death | 06 January 1860 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Kensal Green cemetery, London |
| Activity | Education:
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Career:
Went to the West Indies (1794-1798); sent to Constantinople to instruct the Turks in artillery practice and travelled in Asia Minor and Cyprus (1799); engaged in a general survey of Egypt (1801-1802), and of European Turkey and Greece (1804-1807); lived in Greece (1808-1810); retired from the army; wrote topographical books on Greece
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 13/04/1815 |
| Relationships | 2nd son of John Martin Leake of Thorpe Hall, Essex |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1860-1862 vol 11 pp vii-ix |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/27833332 |
| Code | NA7445 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/002664 | Leake, William Martin | nd |
| EC/1815/02 | Leake, William Martin: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/2/209 | Requisition for a Special General Meeting of the Royal Society | 21 May 1836 |
| MC/2 | Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1832-1838 |