Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
William Elford Leach was one of the world's leading zoologists. He prepared the way to make Britain the birthplace of Natural Selection, then he sank silently from view, all but forgotten for two hundred years. This is the story of him and his family.
Table of Contents
1. Beginnings
2. Redcoat to Green Jacket
3. Back to War
4. The Outposts
5. London
6. A very indecorous act
7. Edinburgh
8. Qualification
9. Empty dogs and empty houses
10. Storms
11. Salamanca
12. Vittoria
13. The invasion of France
14. Peace
15. Professionalism
16. The British Museum
17. Elford Leach
18. Escape of the Tyger
19. Quatre Bras
20. Waterloo
21. Waterloo epilogue
22. Paris
23. The year without a summer
24. On with the new
25. Bullocks sale
26. Vaulting the Zebra
27. Retirement
28. Travels
29. Endings
30. Epilogue
Appendices
1 The name Leach
2 The Leach family of Plymouth
3 William Elford Leach itinerary
4 Jonathan Leachs military service
5 Jonathan Leachs Waterloo letters