Born at Wheatley near Halifax on 11 November 1862, the eldest son of John Leech, JP, a director of John Crossley Ltd, Halifax, and Susannah Hargreaves his wife. He was educated at Owens College, Man¬chester, and was junior house surgeon at Warrington Infirmary. He then settled as a general practitioner at Halifax and from 1890 to 1919 was medical officer to the Royal Halifax Infirmary. On his resignation of this post he was appointed consulting medical officer in charge of the venereal clinic at the Infirmary. During the war he was attached to the St Luke's Hospital. He married on 10 October 1885 Emmie Milson Bowyer, who survived him with one son. He died on 7 February 1936 and was buried in St Paul's Churchyard, King's Cross, Halifax. Leech was the best known and most highly respected consultant over a wide area round Halifax. He was a good linguist and a cultivated man, and had a distinct bias towards surgery. He was chairman of the Halifax division of the British Medical Association and president of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-¬Chirurgical Society. Publications: Editor for many years of the article on General Surgery in the *Medical Annual*. Note on a case of non-tropical abscess of the liver. *Sheffield med J* 1893, 1, 212. Gangrenous abscess of the lung; operation; recovery. *Lancet*, 1894, 1, 87. A case of strangulated left duodenal retroperitoneal hernia successfully relieved by operation. *Ibid* 1903, 1, 1591. Results of 100 operations for carcinoma mammae. *Brit med J* 1910, 1, 72.