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Baldwin Leighton

1805–71

Politician. M.P. for South Shropshire, 1859–65. Married Mary Parker of Sweeney Hall, Shropshire, in 1832.

Sources

Burke’s peerage 1980

Modern English biography.

Bibliography

Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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