Edward Leathes

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

Leathes was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the fifth son of George Leathes of the 1st Royal Dragoons, and his wife Mary Moore; Venn gives the year of birth as 1797. He was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, and matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge 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.

Leathes bought Normanston(e) Hall, south-west of Lowestoft, in 1832. He died 11 February 1871 at Normanston, and was buried at Herringfleet.