Table of Contents

1. Beginnings 2. Redcoat to Green Jacket 3. Back to War 4. The Outposts 5. London 6. A very indecorous act 7. Edinburgh 8. Qualification 9. Empty dogs and empty houses 10. Storms 11. Salamanca 12. Vittoria 13. The invasion of France 14. Peace 15. Professionalism 16. The British Museum 17. Elford Leach 18. Escape of the Tyger 19. Quatre Bras 20. Waterloo 21. Waterloo epilogue 22. Paris 23. The year without a summer 24. On with the new 25. Bullock's sale 26. Vaulting the Zebra 27. Retirement 28. Travels 29. Endings 30. Epilogue Appendices 1 The name Leach 2 The Leach family of Plymouth 3 William Elford Leach itinerary 4 Jonathan Leach's military service 5 Jonathan Leach's Waterloo letters

About the Author

Keith Harrison worked as a marine biologist for Dorset County Council, Nottingham University and The Natural History Museum, London. It was while working at The Natural History Museum that he became interested in William Elford Leach, who had worked at the museum's forebear, the Natural History Department of the British Museum.Eric Smith (1909-1990) lectured in zoology at Manchester, Sheffield and Cambridge universities. He was Professor of Zoology at Queen Mary College, London University 1950-65 and Director of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory 1965-74. He was Vice-President of the Linnean Society of London 1954-5; Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London 1959-91; Vice-Principal of Queen Mary College 1963-5; a member of the UK's Science Research Council 1965-7; Chairman of Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 1969-74; President of the International Council of Scientific Unions 1972; and a member of the UK's Advisory Board for the Research Councils 1974-7. He was elected FRS in 1958 and awarded a CBE in 1972. He was knighted in 1977. Sir Eric died in 1990. He and Keith Harrison had collaborated since 1985.