Edward Leech (MP)
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Sir Edward Leech (or Leche; 1572–1652) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1625.


Biography

In 1614, Leche was elected Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel. He was elected Member of Parliament for Derby in 1621. He was of Cheshire when he was knighted by King James at Windsor on 9 September 1621 and about this time became Master in Chancery. He was re-elected MP for Derby in 1624 and in 1625. He owned property in Derbyshire at Chatsworth,
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and Belper. Leech died in Drury Lane, London, 1652, at the age of about 80.TNA Prob 11/224


Family

Great-grandfather of Edward Leche was John V Jankin de Leche of Carden (1403-1492 or 1422-1485), Esq., Deputy Sheriff of Chester (1464), who owned moorlands in Carden, Clutton and Aldersy as the vassal of lords Stanley, earl of Chester. The Leech family is descended from a certain Jоhn Leche «Irlonde», the surgeon of Edward III. In 1377, John "Irlonde" Leche was granted a patent on the possession of the castle Warin (Warden) in Kildare in Ireland, and in 1386 the moorlands near Stretton, Farndon and Coddington by Edward III. Edward Leche married firstly Jane Chaworth, daughter of John Chaworth of Nottinghamshire and sister of George Chaworth, 1st Viscount Chaworth and secondly, Jane, daughter of
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of Cavan (d 1618). His eldest son, Sir William Leche (1624-1676), was of
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, Derbyshire and Squerryes Court, Westerham, Kent. A second son, Robert, was admitted at Grey's Inn in 1653. His daughter Dorothy married Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet. By his second wife, he had a daughter, Rose (1637-1689), who married Edward Smyth of
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leech, Edward 1572 births 1652 deaths Members of the Parliament of England for Lostwithiel English lawyers 17th-century English lawyers English MPs 1614 English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 1624–1625 English MPs 1625