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Colin Leakey

English plant scientist and academic

Colin Louis Avern Leakey (13 December 1933, Cambridge, England – 29 January 2018, Lincoln, England) was a leading plant scientist in the United Kingdom, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and of the Institute of Biology, and a world authority on beans.

Background

Colin Leakey was the son of Louis Leakey (1903–1972), the pioneering paleoanthropologist, and Frida (Avern) Leakey, of Newnham College, Cambridge. His paternal grandparents were Church of England missionaries in British East Africa; his father grew up amidst the Kikuyu people and spent almost all his life in what became Kenya. His parents met in 1927 and married the following year.[1] Their first child was a daughter, Priscilla Muthoni; Colin was their only other child. Louis left Frida just after Colin was born.[2] He grew up with his mother and sister in Cambridge, and did not see his father again until he was 19.[1]

By his father's second marriage to Mary Leakey, Leakey was half-brother to Richard, a conservationist, Ph

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WEB PAGES NEW Revised at end 2014 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE FAMILY Colin is part of the Leakey clan of scientists who don't mind swimming against the tide until the tide turns in their favour. Leakey's seem inclined to be unashamedly enthusiastic in pursuit of their beliefs. Colin has sometimes described himself as the one the National Geographic doesn't know about. Colin was born in 1933 in Cambridge. He is the eldest son of Louis S. B. Leakey (of old bones of Olduvai Gorge to Calico Hills etc.) and the elder half brother of Richard (more old bones, but also elephants and politics). He is also elder cousin of Roger (agroforestry research, with whom he shares many botanical / agroforestry interests). For more about the Leakeys you can search the Web for 'Leakey' and 'Beans' and refer to Virginia Morrell, book Ancestral Passions (1995). Louis Leakey's first wife Frida whom Louis left when Colin was a few months old brought up Colin and his elder sister. Frida Leakey was an early graduate of Newnham College. It was she who discovered the site

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Colin Leakey

Colin Louis Avern Leakey (13 December 1933, Cambridge, England – 29 January 2018, Lincoln, England) was a leading plant scientist in the United Kingdom, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and of the Institute of Biology, and a world authority on beans. Colin Leakey was the son of Louis Leakey (1903–1972), the pioneering paleoanthropologist, and Frida (Avern) Leakey, of Newnham College, Cambridge. His paternal grandparents were Church of England missionaries in British East Africa; his father grew up amidst the Kikuyu people and spent almost all his life in what became Kenya. His parents met in 1927 and married the following year. Their first child was a daughter, Priscilla Muthoni; Colin was their only other child. Louis left Frida just after Colin was born. He grew up with his mother and sister in Cambridge, and did not see his father again until he was 19. By his father's second marriage to Mary Leakey, Leakey was half-brother to Richard, a conservationist, Philip, a politician, and Jonathan, a businessman. Many of the Leakey family have made contribut

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