W. Keith Leask (16 April 1857 – 2 May 1925) was a writer and a classics lecturer at the University of Aberdeen.
[3] He was employed by the University of Aberdeen as assistant to W D Geddes, Professor of Greek from 1882 to 1887.
[5] Blair, in his Obituary of Leask, suggests that he should have gone to London and devoted himself to journalism.
[6] But Leask returned to Aberdeen and earned his living by writing books and articles for newspapers such as the Glasgow Herald.
He died of heart disease at his lodgings at 82 Union Grove, Aberdeen on 2 May 1925.