North - Uganda Protectorate - Transferred from Niger Coast Prot. - Promoted 26/8/1899; arr. Mombasa from Zanzibar with wife 29/12/1899, dep. for Uganda same day; Apparently abandoned wife soon after the marriage; based at Masindi May 1901 dep. Mombasa for Zanzibar, granted 10 days' leave to marry Portuguese girl he met on ship 11-11-1899; ill-treated and then abandoned wife soon after marriage. She wrote to FO trying to get some of his salary sent directly to her as he was refusing to give her any money. 'His conduct in this matter is quite reprehensible' (Sir Harry Johnston, FO 2) 28-12-1900; resident at Masindi May 1901; dep Uganda for England on 4 months' leave via River Nile route, dep. Khartoum for north 12-12-1901; resigned end of appt 11-4-1902; 'a most unsatisfactory official' (Sir Harry Johnston, FO 2)

Daily Telegraph 25 Apr 1910 Mr William John Seymour Leet, barrister at law, and formerly political agent to the Conservative Party at Fulham, residing in Holland Road, Kensington, summoned his wife, Mary Elizabeth Leek, of St Luke's Road, Clapham, to show cause why an order of the court, under which he was required to pay her alimony for desertion, should not be reduced in consequence of his change in financial circumstances. A similar application, heard on March 11th last, was dismissed.  The lady's solicitor stated that if Mr Leet could afford to keep another woman he was in a position to maintain his wife. This allegation at the trial was denied. Mr Leet, giving evidence, said he was without a post of any sort, and absolutely unable to comply with the order. Mr Leet said 'Owing to a slight difference of opinion with my landlady yesterday, she threatened to write and tell my wife I have been living with a girl for the past 5 months. This threat she carried out this morning, and I have written to my wife telling her the fact. I admit I have lived with a girl and have asked my wife to forgive me. If not, I suppose she will take the necessary divorce proceedings.

Was in an Infantry Regt. in Ireland in 1910