LEIGH, Francis (c.1579-c.1625), of Newnham Regis, Warws.

Family and Education

b. c. 1579, 1st s. of Sir William Leigh of Newnham Regis by Frances, da. of (Sir) James Harington I of Exton, Rutland. educ. M. Temple 1597. m. by 1601, Mary, da. of (Sir) Thomas Egerton I, 2s. 3da. KB 1603.Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. lxii), 10; C142/507/170; PCC 15 Hele; CP, ii. 271.

Offices Held

Member, Antiq. Soc. c. 1600; gent. of privy chamber to James I; master of requests 1614; sheriff, Warws. 1618 – 19, j.p.q. by 1621.J. Evans, Hist. Antiq. Soc. 11; Mort thesis; T. L. Moir, The Addled Parlt. of 1614, p. 188; C193/13/1.

Parlimentarian

LEIGH, Sir Francis I (c.1579-1625), of Westminster, Apps Court, Surr. and King’s Newnham, Warws.

Main residence: Newnham Regis, Warws.

Author

A.H.

P.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

LEIGH, Francis (c.1579-c.1625)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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