Egerton Leigh (priest)

Dr Egerton Leigh, FSA (1702 - 5 February 1760) was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and landowner in North West England.

[1] His family were landed gentry owning states in Cheshire, being principally seated at West Hall, High Legh.

Leigh inherited the ancestral seat of West Hall together with the lordship of the manor of High Legh and the advowson of the 1st mediety of Lymm, as well as various other family estates in Cheshire.

[2] Educated at St John's College, Cambridge (LLB 1728, LLD 1743),[3] Leigh served variously as Rector of Lymm; Rector of Myddle, Shropshire; Archdeacon of Salop; Prebendary of Bullinghope alias Bullingham Magna, Herefordshire; Canon of Hereford; Master of St Katherine's Hospital, Ledbury;[4] and Vicar of Upton Bishop, Herefordshire.

[7] His numerous descendants[8] include Sir Neville Leigh KCVO and his son Sir Edward Leigh MP, the Leycester-Roxby family,[9] the Booths of Foxley, Lymm, the Earls of Bantry,[10] the Cunliffe and Edwards baronets and the TV personality Al Murray.