Administrative / Biographical History

Leggate was honorary senior lecturer in neurosurgery at the University of Manchester from 1992 and consultant neurosurgeon to Hope Hospital Salford and Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. He had qualified in 1978 from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and was honorary lecturer in the University of Edinburgh from 1986 to 1989 and senior registrar in neurosurgery at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. Leggate came to Manchester as consultant neurosurgeon to North Manchester General Hospital.