Career
He was elected Member of Parliament for Derby in 1621. He was of Cheshire when he was knighted by King James at Windsor on 9 September 1621 and about this time became Master in Chancery. He was re-elected Member of Parliament for Derby in 1624 and in 1625.
He owned property in Derbyshire at Chatsworth, Shipley and Belper.
Leech died in 1652 at the age of about 80. Great-grandfather of Edward Leech was John V Jankin de Leche of Carden (1403-1492 or 1422-1485), esq., Deputy Sheriff of Chester (1464), who owned moorlands in Carden, Clutton and Aldersy as the vassal of lords Stanley, earl of Chester.
The Leech family is descended from a certain Jоhn Leche «Irlonde», the surgeon of Edward III. In 1377 John "Irlonde" Leche was granted a patent on the possession of the castle Warin (Warden) in Kildare in Ireland, and in 1386 the moorlands near Stretton, Farndon and Coddington by Edward III.
