Other Events:

• Education: Manchester, Lancashire, England; Manchester Grammar School
• Office: Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Lancashire
• Occupation: Proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette
• Hereditary Title: From 9 Feb. 1918 to 29 July 1959; 1st Baronet, of Altrincham, co. Chester [U.K., 1918]
• Office: From 1922 to 1945; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Clapham
• Residence: 1959, Juniper Hill, Mickleham, Surrey, England
• Probate: 15 Sept. 1959, London, Middlesex, England; Granted to Arnold Edwin Thirlby and Trevor Stanley Passmore solicitors and Maurice Stanley Bradford chartered accountant (Effects £590985 1s. 8d.)

Notes:

Office:
He sat as a Conservative.

John married Norah Marjorie New on 23 Jan. 1908. Norah (daughter of John Henry New) died on 13 Jan. 1954. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sir John Leigh, 2nd Baronet was born on 24 March 1909; died on 13 Dec. 1992.
2. Marjorie Joan Leigh was born on 2 Nov. 1910; died on 24 April 1985.
3. Lt.-Cdr. Eric Leigh was born on 13 April 1913; died on 9 May 1981.
4. David Leigh was born on 6 Feb. 1921; died on 22 Aug. 2001.

Other Events:

• Office: Justice of the Peace (J.P.)
• Residence: Woodbourne, Brooklands, Cheshire, England