House of Leiningen
For a short time Leonard Whibley worked in publishing at Methuen and shared a house with his brother Charles Whibley, William Ernest Henley and George Warrington Steevens. Leonard returned to academia with a lectureship in Classics (Ancient History) at Cambridge from 1899 to 1910. Leonard surprised his family and friends, when in 1920 at age 57, he married Henriette Leiningen, daughter of Major-General William Brown Barwell and Lise, Countess of Leiningen Westerburg, a descendant of the "Alt-Leiningen-Westerburg" branch of the House of Leiningen. Leonard died 8 November 1941 at Frensham, Surrey.