The club was formed in 1839 by Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh and the ground was established in front of the West Wing of Stoneleigh Abbey for the benefit of his sons William Henry Leigh and Edward Chandos Leigh so that they might continue to play cricket in the summer on returning home from Harrow School.
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Today the club is a thriving club with a Junior Team now established as it was originally founded by Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh.
Baron | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Mike Leigh | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Leigh | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | baron | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Vivien Leigh | Sacha Baron Cohen | Leigh Hunt | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joey Baron | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle |
Their third and youngest son the Very Reverend the Honourable James Wentworth Leigh Dean of Hereford.
Leigh was born at Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, the second son of Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh, and Margarette Willes, daughter of Reverend William Shippen Willes, of Astrop House, Northamptonshire.