Francis Leigh (died 1644)

6 Sep. 1590 – 13 December 1644) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625.

He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 8 May 1607, aged 15.

He was a justice of the peace for Surrey (1616-at least 1642), Kent (1627-at least 1642) and Middlesex (1630–39) and was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex for 1621–22.

Leigh died at the age of about 48 and was buried at Addington on 17 December 1644.

[1] He married twice: firstly Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of William Mynterne of Thorpe, Surrey, with whom he had 3 sons (2 of whom predeceased him) and a daughter and secondly Christian, the daughter of Sir John Thynne of Longleat, Wiltshire, with whom he had 6 sons (of whom 2 predeceased him) and 2 daughters.