Family and Education
b. ?1757, 1st s. of Robert Leigh of Rosegarland, and bro. of Charles Leigh.Procs. R. Irish Acad. lix, sec. C, no. 1 (1957), 45; Cornwallis Corresp. iii. 108; PRO 30/9/13, pt. 2. educ. by Rev. Benjamin Hobart, Carlow; Trinity, Dublin 10 Feb. 1775, aged 17. m. Dec. 1788, Grace, da. of Richard Baldwin, 3s. 2da. suc. fa. 1803.
Offices Held
MP [I] 1785 – 97; Feb. – Dec. 1800.
Collector of excise, co. Wexford c. 1791 – 99, co. Dublin 1801–21.
Sovereign, New Ross 1799.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Rosegarland, co. Wexford, [I].
Volume
Commons 1790-1820
Web Title
LEIGH, Francis (?1757-1839)
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Oxford 1644
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