Career

He also played for the Yorkshire Second XI from 1904 to 1906. Born in Kirkstall, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, Leather was a right-handed opening batsman, he scored 5 and 14 as Yorkshire were beaten by 262 runs, despite a second innings century from David Denton. Richard Ollivierre took 11 wickets for the tourists, while Percy Goodman scored an unbeaten century in the same game.

Leather died in January 1913 in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt, aged 32.