Background
The son of William Leigh of Singleton-in-the-Fylde, Lancashire, and great-grandson of William Leigh, was born at Singleton Grange in 1662.
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Charles Leigh
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On 7 July 1679 he became a commoner of Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts on 24 May 1683. Anthony Wood recorded that he left Oxford in debt. He went to Jesus College, Cambridge, and graduated Master of Arts
Career
And Doctor of Medicine (1689) there. Leigh was on 13 May 1685 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. When Wood wrote his Athenæ Oxonienses, Leigh was practising in London.
But he lived at Manchester at a later date, and had an extensive practice in Lancashire.
He is said to have died in 1701, but there is some doubt on this point. Leigh married Dorothy, daughter of Edward Shuttleworth of Larbrick, Lancashire, with whom he received a moiety of the manor of Larbrick, afterwards surrendered in payment of a debt owing by Leigh to Serjeant Reginald Bretland.
He left no issue. His widow died before 1717.
Membership
Royal Society.
