William Douglas Leitch was a Tasmanian football player, businessman and sports administrator.
Career
In his youth Leitch was a highly regarded Australian Rules football player at the Railway Football Club. In later life he was a patron of Australian rules football in Tasmania, and was a long-time Tasmanian delegate to the Australian National Football Council.
Membership
Leitch was an employee and later board of directors member of Henry Jones"s IXL jam manufacturing business. Taking his first job at the company at the age of only ten and working there until his death, he gave almost seventy years continuous service.