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Adm. pens. (age 19) at CHRIST'S, Oct. 19, 1820. S. of Richard Leigh [solicitor], of Lamb's Conduit Street, London. [B. Feb. 9, 1802, in London.] School, Merchant Taylors'. ' Matric. Lent, 1821; B.A. 1825; M.A. 1828. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) 1826; priest, 1828. R. of St Michael's, St Andrew's and St Stephen's, Stamford, Lincs., 1838-45. Confrater of Browne's Hospital, Stamford, 1848-68. Chaplain to the Marquess of Exeter, 1860-1. Died in Browne's Hospital, May 2, 1868. Brother of Leigh (1835). (Eccles. Gazette, May, 1868; Merchant Taylors' Sch. Reg.; Peile, II. 401; Crockford.)