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Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet (3 August 1884 – 28 July 1959)^[1] was a British mill-owner, who used his fortune to buy a newspaper and launch his career as a Conservative Party politician.

Leigh was educated at Manchester Grammar School,^[2] and made his fortune in the Lancashire cotton industry. He was made a baronet in February 1918, of Altrincham in Cheshire,^[1]^[3] and at some point around 1921 he purchased the Pall Mall Gazette newspaper.^[2]^[4] He was rumoured at the time to be worth fourteen million pounds.^[5]

He was elected as Member of Parliament for the Clapham division of Wandsworth at a by-election in May 1922 after the resignation of the Conservative MP Sir Arthur du Cros, and held the seat until he retired from politics at the 1945 general election.^[6]

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^ ^a ^b "Baronetcies beginning with "L" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's Baronetage pages. http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsL2.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
^ ^a ^b "Sir John Leigh, 1st Bt.". ThePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p14813.htm#i148128. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
^ London Gazette: no. 30544, p. 2484, 26 February 1918. Retrieved on 2009-05-03.
^ "The Beaverbrook Papers". Parliamentary archives. http://www.portcullis.parliament.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%22BBK/B/13%22). Retrieved 2009-05-03.
^ "The British Press". Frankfurter Zeitung. 30 July 1922 andd August 1922. http://www.archive.org/stream/livingage2784081bostuoft/livingage2784081bostuoft_djvu.txt. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 57. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

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Sir John Leigh's contributions in the House of Commons

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Arthur du Cros, Bt.	Member of Parliament for Clapham 1922 – 1945	Succeeded by John Battley
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Baronet (of Altrincham) 1918 – 1959	Succeeded by John Leigh

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[rayment-bt-0] "Baronetcies beginning with "L" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's Baronetage pages. http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsL2.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-03.

[thepeerage.com-1] "Sir John Leigh, 1st Bt.". ThePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p14813.htm#i148128. Retrieved 2009-05-03.

[gazette--2] London Gazette: no. 30544, p. 2484, 26 February 1918. Retrieved on 2009-05-03.

[beaverbrookpapers-3] "The Beaverbrook Papers". Parliamentary archives. http://www.portcullis.parliament.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%22BBK/B/13%22). Retrieved 2009-05-03.

[fzeitung-4] "The British Press". Frankfurter Zeitung. 30 July 1922 andd August 1922. http://www.archive.org/stream/livingage2784081bostuoft/livingage2784081bostuoft_djvu.txt. Retrieved 2009-05-03.

[craig1918-1949-5] Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 57. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

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