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In Surrey, Leatherhead Lions Club said its annual bank holiday donkey derby would no longer include the donkeys or a dog show "for the welfare and comfort of the animals".
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
The subterranean passage was part of Horsley Towers in Leatherhead, a grand mansion once lived in by Lovelace, also the only legitimate child of scandalous 19th Century poet Lord Byron.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
When she was 11, she went down to nearby club Leatherhead.
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
The gator legend also inspired the Leatherhead character, introduced in 1987, in the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” comics and video games.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2020
He recommends the theory that Highbury was Leatherhead, which satisfies most of the conditions of the book.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
The last non-quarterback to win the MVP was running back Adrian Peterson in 2012, which feels like way back in the leatherhead era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
That the leatherhead era of workplace harassment was over.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
Maltby was famous for his mastery of sports arcana, especially as it pertained to the leatherhead era of American football, as well as for his penchant for striking, counterintuitive analogies.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
The silly old leatherhead didn't know he was doing anything against public sentiment; and told the very thing that made a case against him.
From Vandemark's Folly by Quick, Herbert
Creede pitching into a leatherhead like me, no wonder I did not recognize Virginia in her new dress; I was in such a stew that I hardly knew which end my head was on.
From Vandemark's Folly by Quick, Herbert
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