Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet

Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet (3 August 1884 – 28 July 1959)[1] was a British mill-owner, who used his fortune to buy a newspaper and launch his career as a Conservative politician.

In February 1918, he was created a baronet of Altrincham in Cheshire,[1][3] and around 1921 he purchased the Pall Mall Gazette.

[4] Sir John was rumoured at the time to be worth fourteen million pounds.

[5] He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Clapham division of Wandsworth at a by-election in May 1922 after the resignation of the Conservative MP Sir Arthur du Cros, and held the seat until retiring at the 1945 general election.

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