DEATH OF LORD LEIGH

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1756, 1 November 1905, Page 67

DEATH OF LORD LEIGH

Lady Jersey, who had just arrived in Melbourne from England, received a" cable message on the 24tli ult. announcing the death of her father, Lord Leigh. The deceased nobleman, who was eightytwo years of age, married in 1848 the Lady Caroline Amelia Grosvenor, daughter of the second Marquis of Westminster. Two years after his marriage his Lordship succeeded to the title (which had been created in favour of his father, Chandos Leigh, a minor poet of the early part of last century), since when he had been closely identified with the county of Warwickshire, of which he was Lord Lientenant since 1852. Two years ago he also achieved his jubilee as Provincial Grand Master of the Warwickshire Freemasons. He came of a good old stock, for Sir Pier® Leigh t bore the Black Prince’s standard at Crecy, and his son, Sir Peter, was slain at Agincourt. Stoneleigh Abbey, the family seat, stands with its lovely park on the bank® of the Avon, between Warwick and Coventry. Lord Leigh was a life-long Liberal. His brother is the Hon Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, K.C., counsel to the Speaker; another the Dean of Hereford, long known to the West End as the vicar of St. Mail’s, Bryanston square. There were great festivities at Lord and Lady Leigh’s golden wedding six years ago. The deceased had two daughters. One is the wife of Earl Jersey, the other of the Rev H. P. Cholniondeley, son of Baron Delamere, Canon of Gloucester. The title passe® to the Hon Francis Dudley Leigh, M.A., the eldest surviving son.