Wentworth Leigh

James Wentworth Leigh (22 January 1838 – 5 January 1923) was an Anglican priest in the last decade of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th.^[1]

Born at Paris and brought up at Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire^[2] in a noble family (his father was Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh from 1839), he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[3]^[4]

At the age of sixteen he attempted to enlist in the British Army to serve in the Crimean War and after leaving university went on a tour with three friends of Egypt, Palestine and Constantinople before studying for ministry in the Church of England at Wells Theological College.^[2] He was ordained in 1862 ^[5] and became Curate of St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove. Two years later he was appointed Vicar of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. Later he held incumbencies at All Saints Leamington and St Mary's, Bryanston Square.^[6] In 1894^[7] he was appointed to the Deanery of Hereford Cathedral and retired in 1919. He died in January 1923 aged 84.

Notes

↑ Dr. J. W. Leigh. An Unconventional Dean The Times Saturday, Jan 06, 1923; pg. 11; Issue 43232; col B
1 2 Moir, Prebendary A.L. (1968). Deans of Hereford. Orphans Printing Press. p. 52.
↑ "Leigh, James Wentworth (LH857JW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ "Who was Who"1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
↑ thePeerage.com
↑ New Dean of Hereford The Rev. the Hon. James Wentworth Leigh The Times Wednesday, Apr 04, 1894; pg. 10; Issue 34229; col C

Church of England titles
Preceded by George Herbert	Dean of Hereford 1894–1919	Succeeded by Reginald Waterfield

Deans of Hereford

High Medieval	Ralph Geoffrey Richard Hugh de Breusa Hugh de Mapenor Henry Thomas de Bosebir Ralph de Maidstone Stephen Thorne Ancelin/Anselm Giles de Avenbury John de Aqua-Blanca

Late Medieval	Stephen de Ledebury Thomas Trilleck William de Feriby William Bermingham John de Middleton John Harold John Prophet Thomas Felde John Bagshaw John Stanwey Henry Shelford John Berew Richard Pede Thomas Chaundler Oliver King John Hervey

Early modern	Reginald West Thomas Wolsey Edmund Frowcester Gamaliel Clifton Hugh Curwen Edmund Daniel John Ellis John Watkins Charles Langford Edward Doughtie Richard Montagu Oliver Lloyd Silvanus Griffiths Daniel Price John Richardson Jonathan Brown Herbert Croft Thomas Hodges George Benson John Tyler Robert Clavering John Harris Edward Cresset Edmund Castle John Egerton Francis Webber Nathan Wetherell

Late modern	William Leigh George Grelton Robert Carr Edward Mellish Edward Grey John Merewether Richard Dawes George Herbert Wentworth Leigh Reginald Waterfield Hedley Burrows Robert Price Norman Rathbone Peter Haynes Robert Willis Michael Tavinor

Diocese of Hereford

Hereford Cathedral The Palace, Hereford

Office holders	Richard Frith, Bishop of Hereford Alistair Magowan, Bishop suffragan of Ludlow and Archdeacon of Ludlow AEO: Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford Paddy Benson, Archdeacon of Hereford

Historic offices	Archdeacon of Shropshire/Salop (11th century–1876; renamed to Ludlow)

External links

St Johns Church Bromsgrove

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 76182667

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