Thom's Irish Who's Who/Leebody, Prof. John R.

LEEBODY, Prof. John R., M.A., D.Sc. (Queen's Univ.); F.I.C.; President McCrea-Magee Presbyterian College, Londonderry. Educ.: Royal Academical Instit. Belfast; Queen's College, Belfast; Queen's University (First Science Scholar in College and First Honourman and Gold Meadallist in Mathematics and Physics in the University). Professor of Mathematics and Physics in Magee College, 1895. Pubns.: Religious Teaching and Modern Thought, 1889, and various magazine and review articles. Recns.: fishing, shooting, golf: second son of late Rev. H. Leebody, Ballinderry, Co. Antrim; b. 1840; m. 1866, Mary Isabella (d. 1911), dau. of John Welch, of Kirkcubbin, Co. Down, and has issue two sons and two daus. Res.: McCrea-Magee College, Derry.