Leonard Frank Spath FRS (20 October 1882 – 2 March 1957) was a British geologist specialising in malacology and ammonitology. Spath Creek on Ellesmere Island is named after him, and indirectly the Spathian substage of the Early Triassic epoch.

Education

Spath gained a Bachelor of Science degree in geology at Birkbeck College in 1912 and obtained employment at the British Museum as an assistant curator in the geology department. He undertook two geology field trips, to Tunisia and Newfoundland, around that time which he used as an opportunity to collect fossils. He later gained a Doctor of Science degree from the University of London and was a lecturer in Geology at Birkbeck, University of London.

Awards and honours

Spath was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1940, his certificate of election reads: Spath won the prestigious annual scientific Lyell Medal given by the Geological Society of London in 1945. The Spath Crest, a feature of the Du Toit Nunataks in the Shackleton Range of Antarctic is named after him.