Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh

He was a descendant of Sir Thomas Leigh, Lord Mayor of London in 1558.

He was educated at Harrow[citation needed] and Christ Church, Oxford.

[citation needed] Leigh was Lord Byron's schoolmate at Harrow and is said to have "inherited some of his master's poetical talent".

There is good evidence that it was the model for the chapel of Sotherton Court in Mansfield Park (1814).

[3] In 1839, he also formed Stoneleigh Cricket Club in the Stoneleigh grounds at the request of his son Edward Chandos Leigh, who wanted to continue to play cricket on returning home from Harrow School in the summer months.