in Steyning, Sussex on 6 January 1860. The marbles collected by him in Greece were presented to the British Museum; his bronzes, vases, gems and coins were purchased by the University of Cambridge after his death, and are now in the Fitzwilliam Museum. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, received the honorary DCL at Oxford (1816), and was a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and correspondent of the Institute of France. Works He authored: Researches in Greece (1814) The topography of Athens: With some remarks on its antiquities (1821) Journal of a tour in Asia Minor,: with comparative remarks on the ancient and modern geography of that country (1824) Travels in the Morea: With a map and plans (1830), and a supplement, Peloponnesiaca (1846) Travels in Northern Greece (1835) Numismata Hellenica (1854), followed by a supplement in 1859. His Topography of Athens, the first attempt at a systematic treatment, long remained an authority. Notes Sources Further reading the Architect for 7 October 1876 Ernst Curtius in the Preussische Jahrbücher (September 1876) JE Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship, iii. (1908), p. 442. J.M. Wagstaff, Colonel Leake in Laconia, in J.M. Sanders (ed), ΦΙΛΟΛΑΚΩΝ. Lakonian studies in honour of Hector Catling. (1992) Athens, 277–83. J.M. Wagstaff, Pausanias and the topographers. The case of Colonel Leake, in S.E. Alcock, J.F. Cherry, and J. Elsner (eds), Pausanias. Travel and memory in Roman Greece. (2001a) Oxford, 190–206. J.M. Wagstaff, Colonel Leake. Traveller and scholar. in S. Searight and M. Wagstaff (eds), Travellers in the Levant. Voyagers and visionaries. (2001b) Durham, 3–15. CL Witmore, On multiple fields. Between the material world and media: Two cases from the Peloponnesus, Greece, Archaeological Dialogues, (2004) 11(2), 133–164. link CL Witmore and TV Buttrey, William Martin Leake: a contemporary of P.O. Brøndsted in Greece and in London, in P.O. Brøndsted (1780–1842) – A Danish Classicist in his European context. Rasmussen, B.B., Jensen, J.S., Lund, J. and Märcher (eds) Historisk-filosofiske Skrifter (2008) 31, 15–34. External links Travels in Northern Greece by William Martin Leake, online book. Includes Biography and Bibliography. 1777 births 1860 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society English antiquarians English topographers Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery British military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Prisoners of war held by the Ottoman Empire Ali Pasha of Ioannina British diplomats Royal Artillery officers Ottoman Empire–United Kingdom relations Travelers in Asia Minor