William Morris, Frederick Leach

Place: Cambridge

Born: 1837

Death: 1904

Biography:

Frederick Richard Leach was an English master decorator, mural and stained glass painter based in Cambridge. He worked with the architects George Frederick Bodley and George Gilbert Scott Junior, the designer William Morris, and the church craftsman Charles Eamer Kempe on many Victorian Gothic revival churches, Cambridge college interiors, and church restorations. Leach was born in Cambridge, where his father, Richard Hopkins Leach, was an artist and craftsman. He emerged as a nationally known artist-craftsman in 1866, when he worked with Bodley and Kempe on the decoration of St John the Baptist's church at Tuebrook in Liverpool and with William Morris on the ceiling decorations of the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge.