Leigh Baronets of South Carolina (1773)

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Leigh Baronets
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Arms of the Leigh Baronets of South Carolina
Creation date15 May 1773 [1]
Statusextinct [1]
Extinction date1870 [1]

The Leigh Baronetcy, of South Carolina, British North America, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 15 May 1773 for Sir Egerton Leigh, Attorney-General of the British colony of South Carolina, grandson of the Revd Peter Leigh, of West Hall, High Legh, Cheshire by his wife Elizabeth Egerton, only daughter and eventual heiress of the Hon. Thomas Egerton, of Tatton Park, third son of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgwater.

Leigh baronets, of South Carolina (1773)

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Cokayne, George Edward (1900). Complete Baronetage. Vol. V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 164–165.
  2. ↑ Greene, Jack P. (1974). "The Political Authorship of Sir Egerton Leigh". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 75 (3): 143–152. ISSN   0038-3082. JSTOR   27567255.
  3. ↑ Rugby Baptist Church History
  4. ↑ www.burkespeerage.com
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