William Keith Leask
Scottish classicist and biographer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, W. Keith Leask was a writer and a classics lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. He wrote several biographies and works in classics. Biography Leask was born in the parish of Old Machar in Old Aberdeen on 16 April 1857. He was the son of James Leask who attended King's College, Aberdeen 1844-6 and was an advocate in Aberdeen. His mother was Mary Ann Allan. Leask attended Aberdeen Grammar School and graduated M.A. at the University of Aberdeen in 1877. He then studied at the University of Oxford and graduated first class Class. Mods. at Oxford in 1879 and second class Litt. Hum. in 1881. He was employed by the University of Aberdeen as assistant to W D Geddes, Professor of Greek from 1882 to 1887. He returned to Oxford from 1889 to 1894 but was not offered a permanent post. Blair, in his Obituary of Leask, suggests that he should have gone to London and devoted himself to journalism. 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. Leask was not married.
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