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Walter Leaf (1852–1927)
Leaf, Walter. An English banker, scholar, and translator; born in 1852; died in 1927. In addition to his duties as vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce and director of charitable and educational organizations, he was editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies, and published: ‘The Story of Achilles’ (1880), with J. H. Pratt; ‘The Iliad of Homer translated into English Prose’ (1882), with A. Lang and E. Myers; ‘The Iliad’ (1886–88); ‘Companion to the Iliad’ (1892); ‘A Modern Priestess of Isis’ (1894), from the Russian; ‘Versions from Hafez’; ‘Homer and History’ (1915).