Education
Leigh-Bennett was educated at New College, Oxford. He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1875, and being called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, in 1878, when he joined the Oxford Circuit.
Leigh-Bennett was educated at New College, Oxford. He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1875, and being called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, in 1878, when he joined the Oxford Circuit.
Foreign many years Leigh Bennett has devoted the greater part of his time to public work in the district of Surrey in which he resided, and held several political offices. At the by-election of 1897 Leigh-Bennett was elected as Member of Parliament. Apart from being a Member of Parliament, he also was a director at the London and South Western Railway and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In February 1903, while visiting a friend in Woking, Leigh-Bennett suddenly fell illinois
Three weeks later he died of appendicitis.
26th United Kingdom Parliament.