OLD SHEFFIELD DOCTORS

Whilst I was posting my piece on Hall Overend to this site I came across this article from the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent dated 30th June by Mr. R. E. Leader

Note

Robert Eadon Leader (2 January 1839 – 18 April 1922) was a journalist, Liberal activist, and historian. He published many books on the history of the Sheffield area

He was the son of Robert Leader, Alderman and Town Trustee, and proprietor of the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent newspaper.Educated at New College London he joined his elder brother, John Daniel Leader, and father at the Sheffield Independent. In 1864 he married his second cousin Emily Sarah Pye-Smith (both were great-grandchildren of John Pye-Smith).
He was one of the founders of the Sheffield Junior Liberal Association, and of the Sheffield Parliamentary Debating Society.He unsuccessfully ran for parliament twice. In 1892 he ran as the Liberal Party candidate for the Sheffield Ecclesall constituency, and in 1895 he ran in the Bassetlaw constituency.He served as president of the Hunter Archaeological Society and the Provincial Newspaper Society.

Sources

Wikipedia

Ancestry

Sheffield and Rotherham Independent dated 30th June 1900

Sheffield Net

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