Researching John Leech
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4880 people with the Leech surname? In that year Leech was ranked number 870 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Leech on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Leech and the Leech Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Leech Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Leech family tree.
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Leech Family History Databases
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Leech Forums
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Some Famous People called John Leech
John Leech (caricaturist)
John Leech (29 August 1817 – 29 October 1864) was a British caricaturist and illustrator. He was best known for his work for Punch, a humorous magazine for a broad middle-class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with light social comedy. Leech catered to contemporary prejudices, such as anti-Americanism and antisemitism and supported acceptable social reforms. Leech's critical yet humorous cartoons on the Crimean War help shape public attitudes toward heroism, warfare, and Britons' role in the world.
Leech also enjoys fame as the first illustrator of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. He was furthermore a pioneer in comics, creating the recurring character Mr. Briggs and some sequential illustrated gags.
Source: John Leech (caricaturist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Leech (politician)
John Sampson Macfarlane Leech (born 11 April 1971) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who serves as a member of Manchester City council. Leech was Leader of the Opposition on Manchester City Council from 2018 to 2021 and was the Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington from 2005 to 2015.
He is best known as the "architect" of Alan Turing's Pardon and 'Turing's Law' which, when eventually approved in 2013, used Turing's pardon as a precedent to grant a posthumous pardon to more than 49,000 men historically criminally convicted of 'Gross Indecency' for being gay.
He was also the first MP to speak out against the under-occupancy penalty (commonly called the 'bedroom tax') in Parliament.
Leech served on the city council from 1998 and was elected to the House of Commons in the 2005 general election. In the 2005–2010 Parliament he was a member of the Transport Select Committee and a Shadow Transport Spokesperson on the Liberal Democrat frontbench team in 2006. He held his seat with an increased majority in 2010. He has campaigned in particular on gay rights, affordable housing and refugees.
He played a role in the campaign to outlaw homophobic chanting at football matches and put pressure on leaders in Greater Manchester to take on Syrian child refugees. He lost his Parliamentary seat at the 2015 general election but was elected to Manchester City Council a year later as the sole opposition member.From 2018-2021, he served as Leader of the opposition on Manchester City council, until the Liberal Democrat’s lost their other seat in Didsbury west leaving no official opposition group.
Source: John Leech (politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Henry Leech
John Henry Leech (5 December 1862 – 29 December 1900) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.
His collections from China, Japan, and Kashmir are in the Natural History Museum, London. These also contain insects from Morocco, the Canary Islands, and Madeira. He wrote British Pyralides (1886) and Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea, three volumes (1892–1894).
He was a fellow of the Linnean Society and of the Entomological Society of London, a member of the Société entomologique de France, and of the Entomological Society of Berlin (Entomologischen Verein zu Berlin).
He died at his home, Hurdcott House, near Salisbury, in 1900.
Source: John Henry Leech, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Leech
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