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15 unusual facts about Leigh


Charles Thomas Beer

Born in Leigh, Dorset, England, he received a D.Phil in Chemistry from Oxford in 1948.

Ciarán Griffiths

Griffiths attended St Mary's RC High School in Astley near Leigh, between 1994 and 1999; it was during this time that he starred in Children's Ward at the age of thirteen.

Daws Heath

Daws Heath extends from the north side of Hadleigh towards the A127 London-Southend arterial road, and from where it adjoins Thundersley proper at the west end of Daws Heath Road eastwards to Belfairs Park, Leigh-on-Sea in Southend Borough.

Elmer Burkett

He served as principal of the Leigh, Nebraska, public schools from 1890–1892; he was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Harold Cleworth

Cleworth was born in Leigh, Lancashire in the late 1930s, and was born into a family of two brothers and two sisters.

Leigh-on-Mendip

Leigh on Mendip was home to the television presenter Kevin McCloud, whom is known best from the UK television series; Grand Designs.

Leigh-on-Sea railway station

The original station building was then used by a local Sea Scout troop, until the northern platform buildings were demolished for the widening of the adjacent road.

Leigh-Pemberton

Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (born 1927), Governor of the Bank of England 1983–1993

James Leigh-Pemberton (born 1956), British banker and the Receiver-General for the Duchy of Cornwall

Edward Leigh Pemberton (1823–1910), Conservative Member of Parliament for East Kent 1868–1885

Leigh, Surrey

André Previn, pianist, used to live in Leigh in the early 1980s.

The oldest of the coins dates from 31 BC and the youngest were minted in around 180 AD after the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Mizmaze

Mizmaze (or Miz-Maze or Miz Maze) is the name given to two of England's eight surviving historic turf mazes, and also to a third, presumably once similar site (at Leigh in Dorset) that is now merely a relic .

Nebraska Highway 57

The southern terminus of the southern segment of Nebraska Highway 57 is northeast of Leigh at Nebraska Highway 91, while its northern terminus is at U.S. Highway 275 north of Stanton.

Spencer Austen-Leigh

Another brother, Augustus, was a Provost of King's College, Cambridge.


Adam and the Ants

On 26 January 1980, McLaren convinced the rest of the band – then comprising guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman (who had replaced Warren in November 1979) and drummer Dave Barbe – to leave Adam and the Ants and form Bow Wow Wow, fronted by Annabella Lwin.

Anthony Leigh

Richard Estcourt used to imitate Leigh's "Spanish Fryar" in the play by Dryden.

Artur Ekert

From 2002 until early 2007 he was the Leigh-Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Australian Stock Car Auto Racing

Other notable drivers include: Marshall J. Brewer, Terry Wyhoon, Garry Rogers, Russell Ingall, John Faulkner, Jim Richards and his son Steven, Tony Kavich, Adam Pay, Nathan Pretty and his sister Nicole, Jason Whylie, Eddie Abelnecia and Leigh Watkins (who was the only driver other than Jim Richards to win the championship driving a Falcon).

Barbara Jeppe

Her definitive work on Amaryllidaceae in collaboration with Piet Vorster, has yet to be published, the illustrations being finished by her daughter, Leigh Voigt.

Baron Leigh

The Very Reverend the Honourable James Wentworth Leigh, third son of the first Baron, was Dean of Hereford.

Brett Leigh

Leigh began his career on the Broadway stage, playing the roles of "Riff" and "Action" in the musical West Side Story and "Tommy Djilas" in the The Music Man.

Brian Maxwell

Brian Leigh Maxwell (1953, London, England – March 19, 2004, San Anselmo, California) was a Canadian athlete, track coach, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Capital Disney

The final line up of presenters at closure was Adam Morris, known on air as The General, James Beckingham, Matt James, Val Mellon, Leigh Purves, Nigel Mitchell, Andrew Rendle, known as Radio Rendle, Adam O'Neill, Saffron Oddy and Sophie Bruce.

Carsen Gray

Carsen Leigh Gray (born 1992) is an American actress, she is descendant of the Tribe Haida, best known for playing Tiger Lily on the movie Peter Pan.

Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh

Their third and youngest son the Very Reverend the Honourable James Wentworth Leigh Dean of Hereford.

Cotton-spinning machinery

-- Perfected by Thomas Highs of Leigh, stolen by , POV --> This principle was the basis of Richard Arkwright's later water frame design.

Edward Leigh, 5th Baron Leigh

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.

Felicity LaFortune

Felicity LaFortune (born December 15, 1954 in Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.) is an actress and singer, best known for appearing on daytime soap operas Ryan's Hope as Leigh Kirkland Fenelli (1983-1985, 1988-1989) and All My Children as Laurel Banning Dillon (1993-1996).

Hindley Green

The village lies to the east of Hindley and is centred on the A577 Atherton Road to its boundary with Leigh.

James Leigh-Pemberton

James Henry Leigh-Pemberton CVO (born 1956) is a British banker and the incumbent Receiver-General for the Duchy of Cornwall.

Lawrence Salander

On 6 April 2011, Leigh Morse, the former director of the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries and dealer for actor Robert De Niro, was found guilty by a New York jury of one count of scheming to defraud.

Leigh Creek, South Australia

ETSA ordered boilers capable of burning Leigh Creek coal for the Osborne Power Station near Port Adelaide and, after thorough investigations, decided to establish a power station at Port Augusta to burn Leigh Creek coal exclusively.

Leigh Delamere services

It features several times in BBC TV's Gavin and Stacey, although scenes reportedly at Leigh Delamere were filmed at Cardiff Gate services in Wales.

Leigh Hennessy

After earning a master's degree in communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and working for Congressman Jimmy Hayes in Washington, D.C., Leigh's career shifted to stunt work in Hollywood.

Leigh House

Leigh House is 16th- or 17th-century house in Winsham, Somerset, England.

Leigh Landy

Marc Battier, Professor of Musicology, Paris-Sorbonne University says
"The contribution of Leigh Landy to the understanding of recent developments in music technology is paramount. Landy's thoughts on electronic music address the essence of this musical genre".

Leigh light

By June 1942, aircraft equipped with ASV radar and the Leigh Light were operating over the Bay of Biscay intercepting U-boats moving to and from their home ports on the coast of France.

Leigh Marble

The son of two Harvard, Massachusetts software engineers and nephew of science fiction novelist Piers Anthony, Leigh Marble is also the direct descendant of 19th century spiritualist Hiram Marble who spent years vainly searching for pirate's treasure that he believed lay buried within the abandoned cave of Dungeon Rock (now part of the Lynn Woods Reservation of eastern Massachusetts).

Leigh Marning

Leigh Marning trained at the National Institute of Circus Arts in Melbourne, Australia from 2001–2003 and was later accepted into the Cirque du Soleil show Cirque du S in Las Vegas.

Leigh Union workhouse

Leigh Poor Law Union was established on 26 January 1837 in accordance with the Poor Law Amendment Act covering six townships, Astley, Atherton, Bedford, Pennington, Tyldesley with Shakerley and Westleigh of the ancient parish of Leigh plus Culcheth, Lowton, and part of Winwick.

Maggie Evans

The character (as played by Kathryn Leigh Scott) has more recently appeared in a number of audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions.

Margaret Clitherow

A group of parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool, Sacred Heart in Hindsford, St Richard's in Atherton, Holy Family in Boothstown, St Ambrose Barlow in Astley, St Gabriel's, Higher Folds in Leigh are now united as a single community with St Margaret Clitherow as its patron.

Molly Leigh

The 20th-century witch Sybil Leek claimed to be a descendant of Leigh's, and took to keeping a crow, named Mr Hotfoot Jackson, around with her, just as Leigh had done.

Paul Dellegatto

The only other certified broadcast meteorologists outside of WTVT in the market are Mike Clay, Josh Linker, Brian McClure, and Juli Marquez of Bay News 9, Tammie Souza of WTSP, and Steve Jerve and Leigh Spann of WFLA.

R. Bruce Ricketts

They had three children: William Reynolds (1869–1956); Jean Holberton (1873–1929), and Frances Leigh (1881–1970).

Regina Regina

The duo consisted of female singers Regina Leigh and Regina Nicks, respectively natives of North Carolina and Houston, Texas.

Sanford R. Leigh

Leigh relocated to New York, was employed as an Administrative Assistant by Bechtel, and as an organist at the Abyssinian Baptist Church.

Sea Princess Azuri

Sea Princess Azuri is an original English manga distributed by Tokyopop and created by Erica Reis (now married and publishing under the name Erica Leigh Currey).

Simon Channing Williams

Following Channing Williams' death, Mike Leigh started to collaborate with producer Georgina Lowe, who in 2011 took over Channing Williams' half of Thin Man Films.

St Mary's Church, North Leigh

The parents of the Civil War Speaker of the House Commons, William Lenthall, came from North Leigh and are buried in the church.

Stoneleigh Cricket Club

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.

Sydney Thelwall

From 1867 to 1874 he was curate of Charles Church, Plymouth, Devon He was vicar of West Leigh, Devon from 1874 to 1892, and vicar of Radford Semele from 1892 to 1909.

The Artaud Beats

Cawkwell and Leigh had released an album together, Upstream, and were booked to play the Avantgarde Festival (Schiphorst, Germany) in 2009 having previously toured Japan.

Vanderpump Rules

Laura-Leigh makes a minor appearance in the 2013 movie We're the Millers and also was a recurring character on The Client List as Nikki Shannon.

W. H. Denny

Denny was born William Henry Leigh Dugmore at Balsall Heath, Birmingham, England.

Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Rhea Perlman, Tom Fenaughty, R Douglas Friedlander, Eileen Gottermeyer, Leigh Hagen, Ilan Mamber, J H Murphy, Saul Fredericks, Cleve Roller, Faith Stanflied

Westleigh, Greater Manchester

Westleigh was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Leigh in the hundred of West Derby in Lancashire.

William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker

Brouncker was born in Castlelyons, County Cork, the elder son of William Brouncker, 1st Viscount Brouncker and Winifred, daughter of Sir William Leigh of Newnham.