Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin

The Uganda campaign medal awarded to Mr R. H. Leakey, Church Missionary Society

East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Mr. R. H. Leakey) brooch marks to reverse, contact marks and edge bruising, therefore good fine £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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Richard Herbert Leakey was born on 9 May 1868, at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, son of the Revd. Peter Nettleton Leakey, at that time Curate of Droxford, Hampshire. He was educated at King’s School, Bruton, and at Stamford Grammar School. He went up to Cambridge and was admitted to Corpus Christi College in October 1887; B.A. 1890; M.A. 1926.

Leakey was accepted by the Church Missionary Society in April 1891, and went out to Uganda with Bishop A. R. Tucker in May 1892. He was involved, as were a good few others of the C.M.S., in the suppression of the Sudanese mutiny in September 1897, and received the medal and clasp for those operations.

Leakey was ordained a Deacon in Uganda in 1901, and a Priest in 1903. He then served in Uganda with the C.M.S. until his retirement on 15 October 1924. During this period he was C.M.S. Missioner in Bulemezi 1901-17, and at Bukaba 1917-24. He was Rural Dean of Bulemezi 1916-21, and Canon of Uganda Cathedral 1917-24. Returning to England, he was Rector of Martinhoe in Dorset 1926-31, and subsequently lived at Exmouth. He was related to the other Leakeys well-known for their work in Anthropology in East Africa, and had married, in 1899, Mabel Gertrude Baxett, one of several sisters who served as missionaries with the C.M.S. in Uganda. The Reverend R. H. Leakey died in Exmouth on 15 April 1937. Sold with a good amount of further research.