Background
Leake was born on 29 July 1932, son of Norman Sidney Leake and Clare Evelyn Walgate.
(Connemara occupies the south-western corner of County Gal...)
Connemara occupies the south-western corner of County Galway. It's white quartzite mountains and rocky shores are perfect for the study of a rich diversity of lithologies and tectonic structures. This report accompanies the 1:63,360 geological map and cross sections of Connemara. It features a brief history of geological research in Connemara; accounts of lithologies; detailed accounts of seven selected local areas; an examination of the anomalous position of Dalriadan rocks in Connemara relative to Dalriadan rocks elsewhere; and an extensive reference list and bibliography.
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President of the Geological Society of London
Leake was born on 29 July 1932, son of Norman Sidney Leake and Clare Evelyn Walgate.
He was educated at the Wirral Grammar School for Boys and the University of Liverpool, where he gained a first class Bachelor of Science in 1952 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1955. He gained Doctor of Science degrees from Bristol in 1974 and Glasgow in 1998.
He is Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Glasgow, was Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Cardiff University 2000-2002 and has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University since 1997. Leake was a Leverhulme research fellow at Liverpool 1955-1957. In 1957 he was appointed lecturer in geology at the University of Bristol, becoming Reader in 1968.
He was a research associate at University of California, Berkeley in 1966.
In 1974 Leake was appointed professor and head of the department of geology at Glasgow in 1974 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1976. He was also honorary keeper of geological collections at the Hunterian Museum.
He was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1977 and was president of the society 1986-1988. In 1997 Leake moved to Cardiff University where he continues work on the petrogenesis of the Galway Granite, and has recently completed a biography of geologist J.W.Gregory.
(Connemara occupies the south-western corner of County Gal...)