Background
Henry was born on November 19, 1874.
Henry was born on November 19, 1874.
Studied at Alim County School, Flintshire. On fhe staffs of the provincial daily journals at Hanley, Scarborough, and Nottingham, 1892-1898. Probably this was Alyn school, as the county was Alyn, note added Oct 2018.
Editor of Nottingham Evening News, 1897. London correspondent Nottingham Daily Express, 189S. Staff of Sunday Special, on inception, 1898.
Evening News, 1899; Daily Mail, 1900-1904. Special correspondent to Pall Mall Gazette on National Antarctic Expedition, 1900-1904. Founder and first editor Oaxton Magazine, 1901.
London Magazine, 1902. Editor Golf Illustrated, 1905-1906. Golf critic, Standard, Observer, Evening News, Sketch, etc.
Contributes London causerie, The Heart of Things, to Chambers’s Journal, etc. Publications': The Duke of Devonshire, a personal and political biography, 1904. The Complete Golfer (with Harry Vardon), 1905.
Fleet Street from Within, 1905. Great Golfers in the Making, 1907. The Spirit of the Links, 1907.
Letters of a Modern Golfer, 1910, etc. Edits Spalding’s Golfers’ Annual.
See British Golf, Collectors Society website, magazine Through The Green for the biography of Henry Leach, due to be published Dec 2018.
Clubs: Savage (savage have no records of HL though HL does mention them in his will) National Liberal; Cinque Ports, Walton Heath, Royal West Norfolk, Royal Porthcawl (left them the majority of his golf books) Mid-Surrey, and North Shore Golf.
Married Clara Jessie Wollason. Had daughter Nancy born 1904.