Bernard Elgey Leake

Bernard Elgey Leake

Bernard Elgey Leake (born 9 July 1932) is an English geologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Glasgow, was Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Cardiff University 2000-2002 and has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University since 1997.

Leake was born on 29 July 1932, son of Norman Sidney Leake and Clare Evelyn Walgate.[1] He was educated at the Wirral Grammar School for Boys and the University of Liverpool, where he gained a first class BSc in 1952 and PhD in 1955. He gained DSc degrees from Bristol in 1974 and Glasgow in 1998.

Leake was a Leverhulme research fellow at Liverpool 1955-57. In 1957 he was appointed lecturer in geology at the University of Bristol, becoming Reader in 1968. He was a research associate at University of California, Berkeley in 1966.

In 1974 Leake was appointed professor and head of the department of geology at Glasgow in 1974 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1976. He was also honorary keeper of geological collections at the Hunterian Museum.[2]

He was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1977 and was president of the society 1986-88.[3]

In 1997 Leake moved to Cardiff University where he continues work on the petrogenesis of the Galway Granite, and has recently completed a biography of geologist J.W.Gregory.[4]

Selected publications

  • Catalogue of Analysed Calciferous Amphiboles (1968)
  • The Geology of the Dalradian and associated rocks of Connemara, Western Ireland (1994)
  • Howarth, Richard John; Leake, Bernard E (2002). "The life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the structural geology of the Moine petrofabric controversy". Geological Society, London, Memoirs. 23: 1. doi:10.1144/GSL.MEM.2002.023.01.01. ISBN 978-1-86239-102-4.

References

  1. ↑ "Who's Who 2011". Oxford University Press. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ↑ "Prof Bernard Leake, FRSE". debretts.com.
  3. ↑ "Past Presidents". Geological Society. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "Professor Bernard Leake". Cardiff University.
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