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Walter Leaf
Sir Walter Leaf (26 November 1852, Norwood, Middlesex – 8 March 1927, Torquay) was an English banker and classical scholar. He published a benchmark edition of Homer's Iliad and was a director of Westminster Bank for many years, eventually becoming its chairman. He was a co-founder and later president of the International Chamber of Commerce, and served as president of the Institute of Bankers, the Hellenic Society and the Classical Association. He married Charlotte Symonds, daughter of John Addington Symonds. He was a Cambridge Apostle. ==Academic career== Walter Leaf was born at on 26 November 1852 and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He won a scholarship to Trinity in 1870, became senior classic in 1874 and was elected to a fellowship the following year. He was concerned with uncovering the physical reality of the classical world, in contrast to the Cambridge Ritualists,〔 and was the foremost Homer scholar of his generation. His edition of the Iliad was published in two volumes (1886-1888)〔 and was regarded for several decades as the best English edition of Homer's epic poem.〔 Leaf also translated works from Russian and Persian, and was fluent in several European languages, including French, Italian and German.〔 He was president of the Hellenic Society and the Classical Association.
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