[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.

In 1974 Leake was appointed professor and head of the department of geology at the University of Glasgow and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1978.

[3] In 1997 Leake moved to Cardiff University where he continued to work on the petrogenesis of the Galway Granite, the geology of Joyces Country, the Clifden and Roundstone areas of Connemara and the massif as a whole.

of Canterbury, New Zealand (1999) • DSc University of Glasgow 1997 • Abstracted 30,000 pages of Journal of Petrology for Mineralogical Abstracts 1995-2008 • Over 40 external BSc class Examinerships plus numerous PhD & MSc Examinerships • Detailed Geological Mapping, chiefly Connemara, Ireland, but also Donegal, Islay, & the Scottish Highlands over 58 years (1952-2008) plus amphibole, mineralogy, petrology & geochemistry studies from all the continents except Antarctica, as shown by publication list • Outside UK & Ireland, short field visits to Eastern Desert Egypt, South & North Appalachians, Grenville Province, Cortlandt Complex New York, North California, Colorado & Bryce Canyons, Arches NP; sites in Turkey, central Sweden & Norway; the Pilbara, Narryer, Leewin-Naturaliste and southern W Australia; Broken Hill NSW, North & South Island, New Zealand • Honorary Treasurer of the Geologists' Association 1997-2008 • Published with Dr PWG Tanner the Dalradian geology of Connemara Memoir; mapping by Leake began in 1952.

• DSc University of Bristol (1974) • Last sole editor of the Journal of the Geological Society (1972–4) • Associate Editor Mineralogical Magazine (1970–82) • International Mineralogical Association, Committee on Amphibole Nomenclature: Secretary (1968–79); Chairman (1982–2006) • Research Associate University of California, Berkeley (1966) • Leader of a 1965-8 Bristol team of 10 who first devised & calibrated in Britain fully automatic X-ray Fluorescent chemical analyses of rocks for 38 major & trace elements (Publication 29) • Mineralogical Society Council (1965–8; 1978–80; 1996–2000) Vice-president (1979–80; 1996–7) President (1999–2000) Managing Trustee (1997-8; 2000–4) • Assistant Lecturer (1957–9), Lecturer (1959–68), Reader (1968–74) in Geology, University of Bristol • Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Liverpool University (1955–7) • PhD Department of Geology, University of Liverpool with 6 months geochemistry at Imperial College.

A palaeogological map of the Lower Palaeozoic Floor below the cover of Upper Devonian Carboniferous and later formations by L.J.

The Delaney Dome Formation, Connemara W. Ireland, and the geochemical distinction of ortho- and para-quartzofeldspathic rocks.

Reply of "late Ordovician to Early Silurian amalgamation of the Dalradian and adjacent rocks in the British Isles".

Fluid disturbed hornblende K-Ar ages from the Dalradian rocks of Connemara, western Ireland.

The Cap de Garde pelites and gneisses, Edough, Annaba, NE Algeria their petrology, geochemistry and origin.

The petrology of the Ortakoy district and its ophiolite at the western edge of the Middle Anatolian Massif, Turkey.

Petrology and geochemistry of siliciclastic rocks of mixed feldspathic and ophiolitic provenance in the Northern Apennines, Italy.

High- Ti biotite bearing ignimbrites from the Zilan Valley (Ercis-Van), Eastern Turkey.

The Central Hoggar Taourirt and albite-topaz post pan-African Granites (Southern Algeria); their petrology, geochemistry and petrogenesis.

The conditions of metamorphism of a grossular-wollastonite-vesuvianite skarn from the Omey Granite, Connemara, Western Ireland, with special reference to the chemistry of vesuvianite.

Petrology, geochemistry, and Na-metasomatism of Triassic-Jurassic non-marine clastic sediments in the Newark, Hartford and Deerfield rift basins, northeastern United States.

Mineralogy, geochemistry, provenance and sodium metasomatism of Torridonian rift basin clastic rocks, Northwest Scotland.

Relationships between hornblende K—Ar ages, chemical composition and hydrogen isotopes, Connemara, western Ireland: evidence for a massive extinct hydrothermal system.

Geodynamic significance of early orogenic High-K crustal and mantle melts: example of the Corsica Batholith.

AMP-IMA04: a revised Hypercard program to determine the name of an amphibole from electron microprobe and wet chemical analyses according to the 2004 International Mineralogical Association scheme.

Hornblende barometry & P-T-t studies of the late Caledonian emplacement events (from ~410 to 380 Ma) in the Galway Granite Batholith, Connemara, Ireland.

Mechanism of emplacement and crystallisation history of the northern margin and centre of the Galway Granite, western Ireland.

2007 B. E. Leake, Review in Geoscientist 17, Part 6 (June 2007) p. 17, of ‘Whatever is under the Earth; the Geological Society of London 1807 to 2007 G. L. Herries Davies.

2008 B. E. Leake, JW Gregory, explorer and polymathic geologist: his influence in Glasgow and on the British rejection of continental drift.

2011 B. E. Leake, Book Review, Once upon a Time in the West; The Corrib Gas Geoscientist, 21, Part 4 (April 2011), p. 23.

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth & Environmental Sciences, 102, 1–16, including a 1:25,000 coloured geological map of the Ring Complex.

2014 B. E. Leake, A new map and interpretation of the geology of part of Joyces Country, Counties Galway and Mayo.

Sapphire occurrences in Connemara: field and mineralogical descriptions from an erratic, and from bedrock pelitic xenoliths in the Grampian Metagabbro-Gneiss Suite.

New light on the Geology of the Roundstone intrusion and that of the Grampian metagabbro-gneiss complex, Connemara, Western Ireland.

2022 Leake, B. E. & Roberts D. Obituary: Donald MacDonald Ramsay (1932 – 2022), Structural geologist who made a major impact on Scottish and Norwegian geology.