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| | Leadbeater, Charles Webster (1854 - 1934) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | LEADBEATER, CHARLES WEBSTER (1854-1934), theosophist and Liberal Catholic 'bishop', was born on 16 February 1854 at Stockport, Cheshire, England, son of Charles Leadbeater, bookkeeper, and his wife Emma, née Morgan. |
 | | In 1918 Leadbeater had been the subject of police inquiries when dissident theosophists in California brought to the notice of the New South Wales attorney-general the earlier allegations of sexual perversion and the fact that he now had charge of a number of children of Australian theosophists. |
 | | Leadbeater himself was a large man, impressive in his Roman purple cassock, with a carefully clipped beard and piercing, almost hypnotic dark eyes. |
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