Talk:Sir John Leigh, 1st Baronet

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I do not have access to a newspaper archive, so I lack reliable sources used for the non-political parts of Leigh's career.

However, he was enormously wealthy (his £14million fortune in 1921 must be the equivalent about about £1billion today), so there must be more significant coverage of him.

A few points for editors to check out:

Details of his purchase of the Pall Mall Gazette don't tally with the list of owners in the Pall Mall Gazette article. Both articles need more checking in this respect, but he did own it -- New York Times of 5 May 1922] reports his "recent purchase" of the paer
He appears to have a park named after him in Altrincham, having donated the land [1]. However, I cannot confirm that it is the same John Leigh, so have not included it in the article
Other snippets: he owned Witley Park, a mansion in Surrey. Not a reliable source, so I haven't used it, but maybe a pointer to further research. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:30, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]