See also
| Name: | Henry Attfield Leeds |
| Sex: | Male |
| Father: | Thomas Leeds (c. 1837-1919) |
| Mother: | Emma Attfield (1847-1929) |
| Birth | 1873 | Somersham, Hunts |
| Birth fact | 1873 (age 0) | 1873 Jun Qtr, St Ives, 3b/283 |
| Census | 1881 (age 7-8) | Grandson, living with William & Hannah Attfield, Somersham |
| Census | 1891 (age 17-18) | Railway clerk, New Town Road, Bishop Stortford (lodger, unmarried) |
| Census | 1901 (age 27-28) | Railway company clerk, 7 Vincent Terrace, Islington (boarder, unmarried) |
| Census | 1911 (age 37-38) | Railway clerk, 12 Norfolk Road, Higham Hill, Walthamstow N E (unmarried) |
| Death fact | 1958 (age 84-85) | 1958 Sep Q, Ely, 4a/245 (aged 85) |
| Death | 21 Aug 1958 (age 84-85) | The Tower Hospital, Ely, Cambs |
Born at Somersham, Huntingdonshire, Henry Attfield Leeds worked for the railways until he retired in 1933. He devoted the rest of his life to the study of British Lepidoptera. With P.M. Bright (1865-1941) he wrote A monograph of the British Aberrations of the Chalk Hill Blue Butterfly Lysandra coridon (Poda, 1761), 1938, and with L.W. Newman (1873-1949) Text book of British Butterflies and moths, 1913. He was a member of the South London Entomological Society.
Source: Natural History Museum Collections
LEEDS Henry Attfield of 3 Beville Wood Walton Huntingdonshire died 21 August 1958 at The Tower Hospital Ely Isle of Ely. Probate London 21 October to Walter Leeds assistant registrar. Effects £1512 15s. 4d.