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Anyone know what this is - is it named after Leeds City?http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s2-ROWL-HEL-1891.htmlCame across the reference when searching for Leeds on the internet - can't find any other reference

That is intriquing. I wonder if Leeds could be a surname? I hope you find out what the Leeds Memory Method is Leeds Hippo.

It appears to be a form of therapy and to have been invented at Leeds University and from what I have gathered is to do with the sexual abuse of children. A very unsavoury subject.

Are you sure?This clipping from the Melbourne Argus 1924http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4206667#    

And another - Melbourne Argus 1926

Leeds Hippo wrote: And another - Melbourne Argus 1926 Could be a misinterpretation on my part. If so I apologise.

from a site on Welsh Biography:ROWLANDS , JANE HELEN (‘ Helen o Fôn ’; 1891 - 1955 ), linguist, teacher and missionary (with the CM) ; b. 3 April 1891 in Menai Bridge , Anglesey , the youngest child of Captain Jabez Rowlands , and his wife Martha . The father travelled the world on sailing ships . He was a man of wide interests and had an astute mind. The mother was a devotional and puritanical lady who ran a sewing business in the home, 1 Fair View Terrace . William , the eldest child, went into the ministry and became minister of some of the English churches of the Australian Presbyterian Church . He invented the Leeds Memory Method . It looks like this method may be named from an Australian Leeds not the Yorkshire one?

Could be this chap:ROWLANDS, Rev William                     M.A.b. 1879 at Anglesey, North Wales.Attended Theological Hall at Bala, North Wales.Left For Australia 1907Ordained Welsh Church, Ballarat (Presb. Church of Victoria) 1908Blackstone Welsh Church, Queensland (Presb. Church of Queensland)To New Zealand :Received by Assembly 15.11.1910Ind Cromwell COP 14.2.1911 - resigned 30.11.1913Returned to Australia :Admitted to the General Assembly of Australia 1914St John’s, Ballarat (Presb. Church of Victoria) 1915Euroa 1918Gardenvale East (Vic) 1927Died 15 May 1951 http://www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/Page196.htm

And there are nearby presbyteries to Euroa, where he may have lived, on Leeds Street in Footscray, and another on Leeds Street in Doncaster East, both in Victoria.

I wish I could find out what it involved - maybe the guy was an operator and the method involved tying a piece of string round your finger!