Researching Clifford Leech
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The name Clifford means "From a steep cliff" and is of English origin.
Records of Clifford Leech on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Clifford Leech and the Leech Family History
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Leech Genealogy Databases
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Leech Forums
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Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Clifford Leech. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Clifford Leech
Clifford Leech
Clifford Leech (1909–1977) was a prolifically published British-born professor of English at University College at the University of Toronto 1963-74. In The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe (2004), Patrick Cheney, its editor, describes Leech's contribution to Christopher Marlowe studies "historically important." His publications mainly concerned Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, including William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Ford. He also wrote a book on American playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Leech was a scholarly colleague of Northrop Frye.
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