William Martin Leake
English military man
Died when: 82 years 357 days (995 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
William Martin Leake (14 January 1777 – 6 January 1860) was an English military man, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
He served in the British military, spending much of his career in the Mediterranean seaports.He developed an interest in geography and culture of the regions visited, and authored a number of works, mainly about Greece.
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