Robert Eadon Leader (2 January 1839 – 18 April 1922) was a journalist, Liberal activist, and historian.
He published many books on the history of the Sheffield area.
He was the son of Robert Leader, Alderman and Town Trustee, and proprietor of the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent newspaper.
[1] Educated at New College London he joined his elder brother, John Daniel Leader, and father at the Sheffield Independent.
Leader House, a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse takes its name from the Leader family, their home from the early C19.