Robert Eadon Leader (2 January 1839 – 18 April 1922) was a journalist,

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activist, and historian. He published many books on the history of the

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area. He was the son of Robert Leader, Alderman and Town Trustee, and proprietor of the ''Sheffield and Rotherham Independent'' newspaper. Educated at

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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

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). 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.

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, a Grade II listed

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takes its name from the Leader family, their home from the early C19.

List of publications

*Reminiscences of Old Sheffield; its Streets and its People (1875) *Life and Letters of John Arthur Roebuck Q.C., M.P. (1897) *Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century (1901) *History of the

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in the County of York (1905–6)

References

External links

* Full text of
Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century
', from the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leader, Robert Eadon 1839 births 1922 deaths English male journalists Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates Politicians from Sheffield Writers from Sheffield