William Douglas Leitch (16 December 1863 – 24 May 1943 ), born in Hobart, Tasmania to Scottish settlers John Leitch and Jean McCrone from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was a Tasmanian footballer, businessman and sports administrator. Leitch was an employee and later board of directors member of Henry Jones 's IXL jam manufacturing business; taking his first job at the company at the age of only ten alongside Sir Henry Jones placing labels on jam tins, and working there until his death, he gave almost seventy years continuous service. Many of his sons would also have careers working for the firm during their lifetimes.
4-507: William Leitch or Will Leitch or Bill Leitch may refer to: William Leitch (footballer) (1863–1943), Tasmanian footballer, businessman and sports administrator William Leitch (scientist) (1814-1864), Scottish astronomer and rocket visionary William Leighton Leitch (1804–1883), Scottish landscape watercolour painter and illustrator William T. Leitch (1808–1885), mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, 1862–1865 Will Leitch founding editor of
8-631: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William Leitch (footballer) In his youth Leitch was a highly regarded Australian rules football player at the Railway Football Club. In later life he was a patron of Australian rules football in Tasmania , and was a long-time Tasmanian delegate to the Australian National Football Council . The William Leitch Medal for
12-718: The Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin Will Leitch (Northern Irish journalist) Bill Leitch, Canadian curler List of teams on the 2011–12 World Curling Tour [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Leitch&oldid=1150673800 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
16-735: The fairest and best player in the Tasmanian Australian National Football League was named in his honour. He was married to Jane Littlejohn (1865 - 1948) at Chalmers Free Church on 17 September 1884, with whom he had 13 children; Elsie May (1883 - 1949), William Douglas (1885 - 1919), John Stanley George (1886 - 1962), Gilbert Barry (1888 - 1972), Dorothy (1890 - 1976), Daniel (1891 - 1891), Edith Isabel (1893 - 1978), Elvira Jean (1894 - 1982), Olive Mary Ruth (1896 - 1946), Winifred Jane (1898 - 1987), Ronald Bruce (1901 - 1966), Allan McDonald (1902 - 1976), and Basil James (1907 - 1974). One of his sons, Allan McDonald Leitch ,
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