Roger Leigh

Roger Leigh (27 April 1840 – 29 February 1924) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.Leigh was the son of Thomas Yates and adopted son of Sir Robert Holt Leigh, 1st Baronet of Barham Court, Maidstone and Hindley Hall, Wigan.In 1867, he succeeded to Barham Court and Hindley Hall.Leigh married firstly in 1861, Elizabeth Jane Blackwell, daughter of Captain Thomas Eden Blackwell of the Argyllshire Highlanders, and had issue.This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1840s is a stub.
Roger Allen LeighConservativeHouse of CommonsRadley CollegeChrist Church, OxfordTrinity College, CambridgeLincoln's Inn1880 general electionMember of ParliamentRochesterHansardParliament of the United KingdomJulian GoldsmidSir Arthur OtwayFrancis Hughes-HallettMemberEnglish