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Dr Egerton Leigh, FSA (1702 - 5 February 1760) was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and landowner in North West England.

He was Archdeacon of Salop from 1741 until 1760. His family were landed gentry owning states in Cheshire, being principally seated at West Hall, High Legh.

Family

A scion of the ancient Cheshire gentry family of Leigh, one junior branch of which were the Leighs of Stoneleigh, he was the eldest son of the Revd Peter Leigh by his wife Elizabeth, only daughter of the Hon. Thomas Egerton (son of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater).

Leigh inherited the ancestral seat of West Hall together with the lordship of the manor of High Legh and the advowson of the 1st mediety of Lymm, as well as various other family estates in Cheshire.

Life

Educated at St John's College, Cambridge (LLB 1728, LLD 1743), Leigh served variously as Rector of Lymm; Rector of Myddle, Shropshire; Archdeacon of Salop; Prebendary of Bullinghope alias Bullingham Magna, Herefordshire; Canon of Hereford; Master of St Katherine's Hospital, Ledbury; and Vicar of Upton Bishop, Herefordshire.

A noted Cheshire antiquary, Leigh was a friend of the poet John Byrom.

Legacy

Dr Leigh married three times (1. Anne Yate; 2. Elizabeth Drinkwater; 3. Cassandra Phelips) and died in 1760 having had nineteen children, including, by the latter, George Leigh (bookseller and partner of John Sotheby); Sir Egerton Leigh, 1st Bt (Attorney-General of South Carolina) was a nephew and the suffragette Lydia Becker was a great-great-great niece.

His numerous descendants include Sir Neville Leigh KCVO and his son Sir Edward Leigh MP, the Leycester-Roxby family, the Booths of Foxley, Lymm, the Earls of Bantry, the Cunliffe and Edwards baronets and the TV personality Al Murray.

Lichfield Cathedral contains various memorial tablets to the Leigh family.

References

"The Archdeacon of Salop". Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
www.thornber.net
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk
"Ven Dr Egerton Leigh" (qv. Burke's Landed Gentry 1952 edn; Leigh of West Hall, High Legh)
www.british-history.ac.uk
Leighs of West Hall: www.dodmore.co.uk
www.william1.co.uk
www.li.man.ac.uk
www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
www.lichfield-cathedral.org

v t e Archdeacons of Shropshire and of Ludlow
High Medieval (Shropshire)	William Peter le Kauf Odo Gilbert Foliot Hugh Foliot Nicholas de Aquila Simon de Edenbridge Peter d'Aigueblanche John Foliot James d'Aigueblanche Hervey de Boreham Richard de Swinfield James d'Aigueblanche (2nd term) Adam de Fileby John de Bestan John de Swinfield Roger de Canterbury Philip Talbot
Late Medieval (Shropshire)	John de Rosse William le Mercer de Rosse Richard de Sydenhale Henry de Shipton William de Borstall Richard Nowell John Hoare John Welles John Hereford John Loveney John Merbury William Leche Thomas Yone Robert Jeffry Thomas Morton John Martyn William Webbe Arthur Stafford John Wardroper William Gobard Henry Martyn Humphrey Ogle Richard Sparcheford
Early modern (Shropshire)	Richard Smythe Robert Grensill Robert Greenwiche Morgan Godwin Thomas Cooke Stephen Philips Francis Wheeler Adam Ottley Robert Comyn Richard Crosse Samuel Croxall Robert Breton Egerton Leigh John Harley Robert Clive Joseph Plymley (Corbett) William Vickers William Waring (became Archdeacon of Ludlow)
Archdeacons of Ludlow	William Waring (previously Archdeacon of Shropshire) George Maddison Henry Bather Algernon Oldham Alfred Lilley Edwin Bartleet Henry Dixon Herbert Whately Hugh Bevan John Lewis Andrew Woodhouse Mark Wood (Bishop of Ludlow) Ian Griggs Richard Lewis John Saxbee (Bishop of Ludlow) Michael Hooper (Bishop of Ludlow) Alistair Magowan (Bishop of Ludlow) Fiona Gibson

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