Born in Douala, Léa began playing football as a center forward with local side Aigle Nkongsamba.
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Mathew Carey Lea was educated with his younger brother Henry Charles Lea under tutelage of the eminent U.S. mathematician Eugenius Nulty, who like Mathew Carey Lea's grandfather and namesake the publishing family's patriarch Mathew Carey, was Irish born.