Titles by Egerton Leigh

1733 – 1781

Lawyer, Royal Attorney-General of the colony of South Carolina, and tobacco farmer.

Bio

Sir Egerton Leigh was born in Cheshire England to the famous Leigh family of the same area. He came to America in 1753 when his father was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Egerton Leigh became a well known attorney and the Attorney-General of the colony in 1765. Remaining loyal to the crown, Leigh fled to England in 1774, but then returned in 1780, only to die the following year.

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Titles

Considerations on Certain Political Transactions of the Province of South Carolina: Containing a View of the Colony Legislatures (under the Description of That of Carolina in Particular). With Observations, Shewing Their Resemblance to the British…

Egerton Leigh

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