George Walpole Leake

George Walpole Leake (3 December 1825 – 3 October 1895 ) was a Western Australian barrister and magistrate and nephew of George Leake (1786–1849). For short periods of time he was also Attorney-General of Western Australia.

Leake held the following positions in Western Australia:

In December 1890, Leake was nominated to the new Western Australian Legislative Council, having resigned his position as police magistrate.

Personal life Leake arrived in the Swan River Colony aged 7 on 27 January 1833, on board . He travelled with his mother; his father having arrived in the colony some years previously. He did not stay long in Australia, being sent back to England after a few years to be schooled at King's College in London. Returning to the colony briefly after this, he then moved to Adelaide to study law. and Leake remarried shortly after to Amy Mabel May, a woman 40 years his junior. They had one daughter.

He retired in 1891,