Frederick Richard Leach (1837–1904) was an English master decorator, mural and stained glass painter based in Cambridge.
As his trade expanded he established a showroom in St Mary's Passage, on the west side of Market Hill in Cambridge.
[16] Frederick Leach's most significant original commission was probably the interior decoration of St Clement's Church, Cambridge.
Here he was responsible for the entire interior decoration, which included some elaborate wall paintings that he personally devised and executed.
Much of this has been lost, apart from the rood beam, and an impressively large painting on the east wall of the chancel showing Jesus as the divine head and great high priest of the church, surrounded by biblical figures and saints.
In 1893 Frederick moved from City Road to a new 'arts and crafts' style house, 'St George's' in De Freville Avenue in Chesterton, a village on the north side of Cambridge.