William became the foundation professor of botany at the University of Nairobi on the eve of Kenya's independence, and wrote "Marine botany of the Kenya coast" in 1967.
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On retirement, and with two of their three children living in Australia, William and Frances followed and settled in Blairgowrie on the Mornington Peninsula, their home for the next 35 years.
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Frances Leighton's father, James Leighton FRHS (19 January 1855 Kincardine O'Neil - 22 January 1930 King William's Town) was a gardener at Kew 1878-1880, 1881-1887 curator of the Botanical Gardens in King William's Town, at the same time developing his own nursery, 1888-1922 he was a town councillor, 1910-11 he was mayor of King William's Town.
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Frances Margaret Leighton (8 March 1909 King William's Town - 8 January 2006 Blairgowrie, Victoria) was a South African botanist and the daughter of James Leighton (1855-1930), a Scotsman and Kew horticulturist and plant collector.
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