Leicester

les'ter, a prosperous city in the north central part of England. It is the seat of the county of that name,--a region noted for coal, Leicester sheep, and as a hunting country. The city is noted for its manufactures of hosiery, boots and shoes, etc. The name is derived from the Latin, meaning camp of the legion, and is in itself a reminiscence of the period when the Romans occupied Great Britain. Remnants of Roman walls and other antiquities are still shown. The population of the city and its manufacturing suburbs was returned in 1903 at 220,272. Montfort, Dudley, and other earls of Leicester were men of prominence in English history.