George Hare Leonard

George Hare Leonard (30 January 1863 – 31 January 1941), known as G. H. Leonard, was the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol from 1905 to 1928.

Life G. H. Leonard was born in Clifton, Somerset, the second son of George Hare Leonard, JP (1826–1913) and Eliza Berry ‘Leila’, née Everett (1835–1925). He was educated at Clevedon School and Mill Hill School, at University College, Bristol, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a first-class BA in the Historical Tripos in 1884.

Upon leaving Cambridge, he was a Lecturer for the Cambridge Extension Lectures Syndicate from 1884 to 1891, and the first of its academic staff to lecture in Cambridge itself. He was then the first Warden of the Broad Plain House Settlement, Bristol, from 1891 to 1900. He was appointed a lecturer in History and Literature at University College, Bristol, in 1901.

Works He wrote the lyrics for "It is the day of all the year", a carol for Mothering Sunday set to a Mediaeval tune and included in the 1928 edition of Oxford Book of Carols.