Background
He was born in Dublin and educated at Thomas Sheridan"s school and then at Trinity College, where he became Professor of Oratory in 1763.
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Thomas Leland
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He translated the Orations of Demosthenes in three volumes and wrote a life of Philip of Macedon in 1758. He wrote an influential "History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II" in 1773. His portrait, by John Dean, is held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Leland was made a fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 1746.
