[1] His mother, Lady Anderson, was considered "a fair young rich widow", and had prominent suitors.

[4] Leigh was made a baronet under James I, and then in 1628 was created Baron Dunsmore, the unique new title in the Peerage of England of this period.

[5] The letters patent for the barony included a special remainder, to his stepson John Anderson.

On his death in 1653 the Dunsmore barony became extinct, but the Chichester earldom passed by another special remainder to Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, his son-in-law.

[10] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: George Edward Cokayne, Complete Baronetage vol.