Montague Richard Leverson (2 March 1830 – 26 September 1925) was a British lawyer known for his diverse career and controversial views.

Leverson was a homeopathic physician, advocating for alternative medical practices at a time when conventional medicine was becoming more established.

His medical views extended to a staunch opposition to vaccination, making him a prominent figure in the anti-vaccination movement.

Throughout his life, Leverson's outspoken opinions and unconventional career path drew both support and criticism.

His life story is a testament to the diverse and often contradictory currents of thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[1] At this period Leverson was a supporter of the Association for Promoting Jewish Settlements in Palestine founded by Abraham Benisch in 1852.

[11] In November of that year, Leverson acted on behalf of Bradlaugh in a criminal libel case brought by Sydney Gedge, concerning a church rates issue.

She pre-deceased him and when he very much later returned to England in his 90's he lived in Bournemouth with his second wife Ethel Mary Charlton, a teacher half his age.

[16] As he wrote to Andrew Johnson in August 1867, he arrived with a letter from Charles Francis Adams Sr. in London, attesting to Leverson's support for the Union during the American Civil War.

[21] He wrote also to President Rutherford B. Hayes, suggesting that Samuel Beach Axtell should be removed as Governor of the New Mexico Territory.

[23] On the ground, Leverson had a part in the release of John Chisum from the San Miguel County jail.

[24] Leverson has been credited with bringing together Chisum's supporters, with the effect that he left jail on bail of $25,000, and the matter of the debt, related to meat packing business, was settled.

[1] He represented himself in correspondence as interested in planting a substantial English colony in the lower Pecos valley, where Chisum's ranch lay, obstructed solely by a lack of law and order.

[27] His prolific letter-writing chose as targets influential figures of the Santa Fe Ring, such as Catron and Stephen Benton Elkins.

He dropped the names of his English contacts William Ellis and John Stuart Mill; and stated that, now he had read George's Progress and Poverty (1879) to which Joseph LeConte had introduced him, he felt his primer should be rewritten.

On his own initiative, he wrote from Fort Hamilton to Emilio Aguinaldo, which allowed opponents to characterise the League as "seditious".

[1] He styled himself "Dr Leverson", and became a homeopathic physician and anti-vaccinator, speaking against vaccination in London in March 1908, with an introduction by letter from Sarah Newcomb Merrick.