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Baron Leigh succeeded to the title on 27 Sep 1850, having been born on 17 Jan 1824. He gave £25 towards the opening of St. Michael's Parish Schools on 7 Mar 1853 and some of the stone for Holy Trinity Parish Schools (opened 1st Sep 1854), donated £21 to the School of Art (and presided at its 10 Nov 1863 re-opening), laid the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital's foundation stone (on 9 Aug 1864), opened the Market Hall (on 19 Jun 1867) and laid the foundation stone for All Saints' church (as Provisional Grand Master for Warwickshire freemasons) on 5 May 1868; on the building committee for that church and St. Mark's, he gave £105 towards their construction. Leigh was in 1854 a director of the Coventry Corn Exchange and Public Room Company (see PA102/1). With W.S. Dugdale, Leigh unsuccessfully petitioned for the revival of Coventry diocese in 1860; he was patron of St. John Baptist, Westwood Heath. Leigh had land at Allesley (see PA295/5/13 et passim): he died on 25 Oct 1905. The Leigh family arms were considered suitable in 1916 for display at the Council House (see PA159/1/187,195,199,214). See PA169. PA402/4 are military commissions which, as Lord Lieutenant, he signed, 1860-67. PA492/2 fol. 50 is a sketch of his heraldic arms. A trustee of the Warwickshire Reformatory Institution (for girls), Little Park Street, Coventry, 1869 (see PA23/3.VII,VIII,5: PA279/10/34). See PA279/44/52,1329,11326 (had Barston manor, Warwickshire land), 11418 (Lord Aylesford's trustee for Barston manor land, 1875). PA436/8/4 shows that the baron remained president of the Coventry Institute until its 1888 closure. He was involved with Priory Farm, Maxstoke, Warwickshire, 1883 - see PA466/8/1 fol. 412. Enjoyed Fillongley, Warwickshire tithe - PA54/132/6; PA54/133/3. PA55/50 shows that Leigh had a putative fee-farm rent on a Fletchamstead cottage in 1847, in which year he had had, and still had, different lands in Eastern Green according to PA55/51/2. As a trustee of the Earl of Aylesford, see PA56/7/15.XXI. See PA2684/10/1/74. PA2695/2.III shows that in 1905 Leigh leased Green Lane land to Bryan James (q.v.). Laid memorial stones at Fillongley Wesleyan Chapel, 1892 - see PA628/53/1. For Leigh's dealings with the schoolmaster William George Fretton(q.v.), 1860-89, see PA2409/2/3/3/13; PA2409/2/3/4/8; P2409/2/5/2/27; PA2409/2/14/1/6,7; PA2409/2/15/8,11,139,140,174. For Kenilworth Road land leased to Bryan James, 1900ff, see PA2770/61/3-16 passim. PA2770/63/1.I abstracts his 1888 settlement. At the back of PA2983/3 is a copy of the memorial service for Lord Leigh held at Holy Trinity.