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Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet
Politician
1884 – 1959
Who was Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet?
Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet was a British mill-owner, who used his fortune to buy a newspaper and launch his career as a Conservative Party politician.
Leigh was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and made his fortune in the Lancashire cotton industry. He was made a baronet in February 1918, of Altrincham in Cheshire, and at some point around 1921 he purchased the Pall Mall Gazette newspaper. He was rumoured at the time to be worth fourteen million pounds.
He was elected as Member of Parliament 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 he retired from politics at the 1945 general election.
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- Born
- Aug 3, 1884
- Education
- Manchester Grammar School
- Died
- Jul 28, 1959
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on July 23, 2013
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