During his time there he was made assistant keeper of the natural history department and became an expert on crustaceans and molluscs.
William Elford Leach (1790–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist
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William Elford Leach suggested a new family grouping for the stephanids in the 1815 edition of Edinburgh Encyclopædia.