Sir William Leighton (/ˈleɪtən/ LAY-tən; c. 1565 – buried 31 July 1622) was a Jacobean composer and editor who published The Teares and Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614).
William was not allowed use of his son's portion unless he gave "good and sufficient sureties".
[1] For education, Leighton recordedly attended Shrewsbury School in 1577, followed by admission as a law student to the Inner Temple in 1580.
[1][2] In 1605, he was heavily fined for bearing witness in support of the claims of Robert Dudley the explorer and claimant to the peerage of his illegitimate father, the late Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who had been another favourite of Elizabeth I.
[1][2] Leighton died in London and was buried at St Bride's, Fleet Street on 31 July 1622.