Major Bertie Edward Parker Leighton (26 November 1875 – 15 February 1952)[1] was an English Conservative Party politician, British Army officer and landowner.
He was son of Stanley Leighton, who was himself a Member of Parliament and from whom he inherited the Sweeney Hall estate in 1901, and his wife Jessie Williams-Wynn.
He served with them through the Second Boer War of 1899–1902, taking part in operations in Natal, Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, during which he was promoted to captain on 27 June 1901.
[3] Following the end of the war, Leighton left South Africa with other officers and men of the regiment on the SS Kildonan Castle, which arrived at Southampton in October 1902.
He married in 1936 Margaret Evelyn, daughter of the Reverend Hugh Hanmer, of The Mount, Oswestry,[2] but was childless when he died in 1952 aged 76.