English architectural critic and journalist
William Henry Leeds (1786–1866) was an English architectural critic and journalist.
Life.
Leeds was born in 1786 in Norfolk. He was credited by John George Cochrane and others as one of the anonymous translators of the anthology of German short stories "Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations" (1823). Leeds was a frequent contributor to the "Foreign Quarterly Review" in the 1830s, writing for them on Russian literature as well as architecture. In the 1840s he wrote for the "Westminster Review". From 1839 to 1854 he edited the "Civil Engineer's and Architect's Journal", and from 1855 to 1856 edited "Land and Building News".
He translated Georg Moller's "Memorials of German Gothic architecture" and edited a revised edition of "Decorative Part of Civil Architecture" by William Chambers.
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