The Very Reverend the Honourable James Wentworth Leigh, third son of the first Baron, was Dean of Hereford.
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The Honourable Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, second son of the first Baron, was a cricketer and barrister.
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The first creation came in the Peerage of England 1643 when Sir Thomas Leigh, 2nd Baronet, was created Baron Leigh, of Stoneleigh in the County of Warwick.
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He was a descendant of Rowland Leigh, eldest son of the aforementioned Sir Thomas Leigh (d. 1571), himself of a cadet branch of the Leighs of West Hall, High Legh.
Master Oats spent his retirement at the home of Lord Leigh near Adlestrop in Gloucestershire, where he was reportedly popular with the villagers.
Baron | Mike Leigh | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Leigh | baron | Vivien Leigh | Sacha Baron Cohen | Leigh Hunt | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joey Baron | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | Leigh, Greater Manchester | William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire | William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney | James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern | Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead | George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney | Beechcraft Baron | Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley | Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman | Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel | Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank | John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara | Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington | Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore | Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby |
Alice Leigh was a daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh, 1st Baronet (died 1625), of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, who was created a baronet in 1611, by his marriage to Catherine, a daughter of Sir John Spencer of Wormleighton.
Edward Leigh, 5th Baron Leigh (1742–1786) was descended from Thomas Leigh, Lord Mayor of London in 1558, and inherited the Leigh family seat at Stoneleigh Abbey, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire following the death of father Thomas Leigh, 4th Baron Leigh in 1749.