In December 1890 Leake was nominated to the new Western Australian Legislative Council, having resigned his position as police magistrate.
[3] Leake arrived in the Swan River Colony aged 7 on 27 January 1833, on board Cygnet.
He did not stay long in Australia, being sent back to England after a few years to be schooled at King's College in London.
Rose died in 1888,[5] and Leake remarried shortly after to a woman 40 years his junior.
Lady Leake later married a Dr Whaler and returned to England.