LEAKE, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IVILLIANI MARTIN, a distinguished investigator of the antiquities of Greece, entered the Royal Artillery, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He resided four years in the Turkish provinces of Greece and Albania, where he was employed by the British government on a special mission. He commenced his travels in Asia Minor in January 1800. In 1805 and subsequently he travelled in the Morea, where he made two journeys, and in Northern Greece, where he made four journeys, which were not strictly consecutive to those in the Morea, though his accounts of them were afterwards published as a continuation. He returned to England about 1810, and in 1814 published 'Researches in Greece, Part I., containing Remarks on the Modern Languages of Greece,' 4to.
In 1821 he published 'The Topography of Athens, with some Remarks on its Antiquities,' Svo, with plates in 4to ; 2nd edit. 1841. In 1823 he retired from the army, but was allowed to retain his military rank. In 1824 he published the 'Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor, with Comparative Remarks on the Ancient and Modern Geography of that Country; Svo, accompanied by a Map ; and in 1826 An His torical Outline of the Greek Revolution, with a few remarks on the present state of affairs in that Country,' 12mo. In 1827 was published a Mei:noire sur les Priucipaux Monumens Egyptiens du Musee Britannique, et quelques autres qui se trouvent en Angleterre, ex pliques d'apres le Systeme Phonetique, par le Tres Hon. Charles Yorke et Is Colonel Martin Leake,' 4to, London, with many engravings in outline. In 1829 he read beforo the Royal Society of Literature an
elaborate paper On the Demi of Attica.' His Travels in the Morea' with a Map and Plans, 2nd edit. 3 vols. Svo, 1839, was followed by Travels in Northern Greece,' 4 8vo, 1835. In 1846 he pub lished 'Peloponnesiaca, a Supplement to the Travels in the Mores,' Svo ; in 1851 a pamphlet entitled 'Greece at tho Fad of Twenty Three Years Protection,' 8vo ; and in 1854 Numismata Hellenica a Catalogue of Greek Coins collected by William Martin Leake, F.R.S., one of the Vice-Presidents of the Royal Society of Literature, with Notes, a Map, and Index,' a thick vol. in 4to. This very elaborate work is dedicated to his wife, "to whose zeal aud perseverance," he says, "I am mainly indebted for the completion of the present Catalogue, and whose skill in the most delicate processes of electro type has enriched the collection with between 500 and 600 of the rarest coins," The researches of Colonel Luke into the ancient state of Greece, its geography and topography, as compared with the modern state, prosecuted during a series of years, and embodied in his Travels, comprise a mass of Information of the highest value, and must con tinue to form a basis for whatever yet remains to be done towards completing our knowledge of the Interesting subjects which have so long occupied his attention.