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Richard Leakey (Richard Erskine Frere Leakey) was born on 19 December, 1944 in Nairobi, British Kenya, is a Kenyan conservationist (1944–2022). Discover Richard Leakey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Richard Erskine Frere Leakey
Occupation miscellaneous
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 19 December 1944
Birthday 19 December
Birthplace Nairobi, British Kenya
Date of death 2 January, 2022
Died Place Nairobi, Kenya
Nationality Kenya

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Parents Louis Leakey Mary Douglas Leakey (née Nicol)
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Children 3, including Louise

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1944

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician.

Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation.

He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service.

Leakey served in the powerful office of cabinet secretary and head of public service during the tail end of President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi's government

Leakey co-founded the "Turkana Basin Institute" in an academic partnership with Stony Brook University, where he was an anthropology professor.

He served as the chair of the Turkana Basin Institute until his death.

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born on 19 December 1944 in Nairobi.

As a small boy, Leakey lived in Nairobi with his parents: Louis Leakey, curator of the Coryndon Museum, and Mary Leakey, director of the Leakey excavations at Olduvai, and his two brothers, Jonathan and Philip.

The Leakey brothers had a very active childhood.

All the boys had ponies and belonged to the Langata Pony Club.

Sometimes the whole club were guests at the Leakeys' for holidays and vacations.

1955

Richard formed the Kenya Museum Associates (now Kenya Museum Society) with influential Kenyans in 1955.

1956

In 1956, aged eleven, Leakey fell from his horse, fracturing his skull and nearly dying as a result.

Incidentally, it was this incident that saved his parents' marriage.

Louis was seriously considering leaving Mary for his secretary, Rosalie Osborn.

As the battle with Mary raged in the household, Leakey begged his father from his sickbed not to leave.

That was the deciding factor.

Louis broke up with Rosalie and the family lived in happy harmony for a few years more.

Leakey chose to support himself, borrowed £500 from his parents for a Land Rover and went into the trapping and skeleton supply business with Kamoya Kimeu.

Already a skilled horseman, outdoorsman, Land Rover mechanic, amateur archaeologist, and expedition leader, he learned to identify bones, skills which all pointed to a path he did not yet wish to take, simply because his father was on it.

1957

Leakey's parents founded the Dalmatian Club of East Africa and won a prize in 1957.

Dogs and many other pets shared the Leakey home.

The Leakey boys participated in games conducted by both adults and children, in which they tried to imitate early humans, catching springhare and small antelope by hand on the Serengeti.

They drove lions and jackals from the kill to see if they could do it.

1961

The bone business turned into a safari business in 1961.

1962

In 1962, he obtained a private pilot licence and took tours to the Olduvai Gorge.

It was from a casual aerial survey that he noted the potential of Lake Natron's shores for palaeontology.

He went looking for fossils in a Land Rover, but could find none, until his parents assigned Glynn Isaac to go with him.

Louis was so impressed with their finds that he gave them National Geographic money for a month's expedition.

They explored in the vicinity of Peninj near the lake, where Leakey was in charge of the administrative details.

Bored, he returned to Nairobi temporarily, but at that moment, Kamoya Kimeu discovered a fossil of Australopithecus boisei.

A second expedition left Leakey feeling that he was being excluded from the most significant part of the operation, the scientific analysis.

1964

In 1964, on his second Lake Natron expedition, Leakey met an archaeologist named Margaret Cropper.

When Margaret returned to England, Leakey decided to follow suit to study for a degree and become better acquainted with her.

He completed his high school requirements in six months; meanwhile Margaret obtained her degree at the University of Edinburgh.

1965

He passed the entrance exams for admission to college, but in 1965 he and Margaret decided to marry and return to Kenya.

His father offered him a job at Centre for Prehistory and Palaeontology.

He worked excavating at Lake Baringo and continued his photographic safari business, making enough money to buy a house in Karen, a pleasant suburb of Nairobi.

1969

Their daughter Anna was born in 1969, the same year that Leakey and Margaret divorced.

1970

He married his colleague Meave Epps in 1970 and they had two daughters, Louise (born 1972) and Samira (1974).