LEATHAM

William Henry (2 child of Wm. Leatham, banker, d. 1842). b. Wake field 6 July 1815; entered his father’s bank 1834; banker at Wake field and Pontefract 1836, retired 1851; contested Wake field 9 July 1852; M.P. for Wake field 2 May 1859 by three votes, unseated on petition and writ suspended until 1862; M.P. for Wake field 1865–8; M.P. for West riding of Yorkshire, southern division 1880–5; a Quaker but joined Church of England in 1843; purchased Hems worth hall near Pontefract 1851; author of Poems 1840; Str afford, a tragedy 1842; Oliver Cromwell, a drama 1843; The Batuecas, also Francisco Alvarez and other poems 1844; Tales of English life and Miscellanies 2 vols. 1858. d. Car let on near Pontefract 14 Nov. 1889. Biograph , v 209–213 (1881); Colburn’s New monthly mag. vol. 168 p. 421, portrait ; I.L.N. 1880 p. 41, portrait .