Colonel William Martin Leake, FRS was a British Army officer, spy, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian and writer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He spent much of his career in the British army in the Mediterranean seaports. Leake developed an interest in geography and culture of the regions visited, and authored a number of works, mainly about Greece.
- Occupation
- archaeologist, diplomat, military personnel, antiquarian
- Position held
- ambassador of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- January 14, 1777, January 4, 1777
