John Walter Leather

John Walter Leather
Born(1860-12-26)26 December 1860
Rainhill, England
Died14 November 1934(1934-11-14) (aged 73)
OccupationChemist

John Walter Leather (26 December 1860 – 14 November 1934) was an agricultural chemist who worked in India as the first Imperial Agricultural Chemist at the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa, Bihar. Appointed in 1892, he worked on a variety of agricultural production and chemistry related issues in India.