THE LATE MR. WALTER LEAF.
While literary circles mourn the loss of a great scholar in the passing of Dr. Walter Leaf, Chairman of the Westminster Bank, there is an equal sense of loss in banking circles. Not the least remarkable feature in the versatile personality of Mr. Leaf was the fact that he acquired his first-hand knowledge of banking at an age when many men are retiring altogether from business activities, and he acquired it so well that he became an acknowledged authority on banking and economic questions. Of tireless industry, he combined with a certain tenacity of opinion a great sincerity and lovableness of character which evoked admiration and esteem from an unusually wide circle of friends and acquaintances. I can recall. no Memorial Service where banking, finance and commerce were more completely represented than the one held last • Friday, at • St. MArylebone Parish Church, for the late Walter Leaf of
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