Record ID:
35296005 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50042558
Heading:
Birth:
  • 17770114
Death:
  • 18600106
Occupations:
  • Geographers Antiquarians
Notes:
  • His Journal of a tour in Asia Minor ... 1824.
  • On some disputed questions of ancient geography, 1857: title page (William Martin Leake)
  • Wikipedia 17 March 2020: (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 was born in Mayfair, London, educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and commissioned in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and travelled widely teaching artillery and conducting surveys. He retired from the army in 1815 as a colonel, devoting the remainder of his life to topographical and antiquarian studies. he died in Steyning, Sussex; his collections went to the British Museum and the University of Cambridge.) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Martin_Leake&oldid=927118646
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)206016
  • 000000297525
  • abv00266300
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC VJTL