LEIGHTON, Sir Thomas (c.1535-c.1611), of Feckenham, Worcs. and Guernsey.

Family and Education

b. c. 1555, 2nd s. of John Leighton of Wattlesborough, and bro. of Edward. m. 1578, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Francis Knollys, 1s, 1da. Kntd. 1579.Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxix), 324; HMC Hatfield , viii. 242; E351/1795, f. 38v.

Offices Held

Gent. of privy chamber 1568; capt. and gov. of Guernsey 1570 – d.; envoy to France 1574, 1585, 1588, to Netherlands 1577 – 78; j.p.q. Worcs. from 1601; commr. musters 1601; member, council in the marches of Wales from 1602.A. J. Eagleston, ‘Guernsey under Sir Thomas Leighton’, Trans. and Rep. Soc. Guernesiaise, xiii. 72–108; LC 2/4/4/; C. Read, Sir Francis Walsingham, iii. 214; APC, xxxi. 403; P. H. Williams, Council in the Marches of Wales, 358–9.

Parlimentarian

LEIGHTON, Sir Thomas (c.1535-c.1611), of Feckenham, Worcs. and Guernsey.

Main residences: Feckenham, Worcs.; Guernsey.

Author

S.M.T.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

LEIGHTON, Sir Thomas (c.1535-c.1611)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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