John Leland (antiquary)
![Line engraving by [[Charles Grignion the Elder]] (1772), purportedly taken from a bust of John Leland at All Souls College, Oxford.<ref>Printed in {{Cite book|editor1-first=William |editor1-last=Huddesford |year=1772 |title=The lives of those eminent antiquaries John Leland, Thomas Hearne, and Anthony à Wood |series=2 vols: vol. 1 |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon |url=https://archive.org/details/livesthoseemine00woodgoog }}</ref> Sculptor [[Louis François Roubiliac]] (d. 1762) probably created the original bust.<ref name=ODNB />](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/John_Leland.jpg)
John Leland or Leyland (13 September, – 18 April 1552) was an English poet and antiquary.Leland has been described as "the father of English local history and bibliography". His ''Itinerary'' provided a unique source of observations and raw materials for many subsequent antiquaries, and introduced the county as the basic unit for studying the local history of England, an idea that has been influential ever since. Provided by Wikipedia
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