Robert Dove Leakey (23 June 1914 – 22 April 2013) was a British inventor, potholer and cave diver.
His younger brother Rea Leakey survived service in the Second World War, and became a major-general in the British Army.
While working as an aircraft designer in the Second World War, a reserved occupation, he discovered the 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) long Mossdale Caverns north of Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales.
[1] He was called up for military service in 1942, the year after his brother Nigel was killed in action, and served as a paratrooper in India and Burma.
He was noted for his ability to survive with little or no protective gear, occasionally diving naked into sumps deep underground, and has been described as "seemingly oblivious to the cold".