Dr G. W. Leitner had an extraordinary life, which was played out across three continents. He was an explorer, linguist, philologist, archaeologist, art-collector, museologist, with many books and publications to his name. He was a profound student of religions, an inter-faith figure, before the inter-faith movement, a pioneering and campaigning editor of numerous publications and journals for both learning, and social and educational reform, the founder of many schools in India, promoter of education for girls, a College administrator, the founder of Lahore University, a library, and not least, the founder of the 'Oriental College' in Woking, and the first purpose built Mosque and Muslim cemetery in the UK. He may be forgotten today, but he is a person for our times.

'The trail was developed in collaboration with the Jewish Country Houses project, with support from the KE-Seed Fund at the University of Oxford'