William Martin Leake ( 1777 - 1860 )

Birth: Bolton Row, Mayfair, London, England (14 January 1777) Death: Brighton, Sussex (06 January 1860) Burial: Kensal Green cemetery, London 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 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 13/04/1815.