Edward Leathes (10 February 1801 – 11 February 1871) was an English army officer and cricketer. Leathes was born in

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, Suffolk, the fifth son of George Leathes of the

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, and his wife Mary Moore; Venn gives the year of birth as 1797. His brothers included John Francis Leathes of Herringfleet Hall, and the Rev. Frederick Leathes, Rector of Reedham. He was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, and matriculated at

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in 1815, where he kept just three terms. He became a Lieutenant in the 1st Royal Dragoons, having joined as a cornet in 1816. His father died in 1817. Normanston Court Ladbrooke

Leathes bought Normanston(e) Hall, south-west of

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, in 1832. He died 11 February 1871 at Normanston, and was buried at Herringfleet. Leathes was a cricketer with amateur status who was associated with

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and made his first-class debut in 1830. Leathes married in 1823 Eliza Mary Galloway, daughter of John Galloway of Exeter. They had six sons and four daughters. The youngest son, Philip, of the

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, later resided at Normanston Hall.

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