Robert Kennaway Leigh,
JP (1852 – 1925) was an English-born
Hong Kong
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architect, civil engineer and director of
Leigh & Orange.
Leigh was born in Bardon,
Washford,
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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, eldest son of Major-General Robert Thomas Leigh, of
Ilfracombe in 1852. He was member of the
Institution of Civil Engineers. He joined the architecture firm Sharp & Danby (name later changed to Leigh & Orange) in 1882. Under Leigh, the firm established reputation for institutional or public work, such as the Clock Tower Fountain in
Statue Square, the
Praya Reclamation Scheme,
Queen's Building
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, the adjacent
Prince's Building, Robert Leigh retired from the firm in 1904.
Leigh was also an unofficial members elected to the
Sanitary Board in 1894.
He had two daughters, Edith Rose and Eva Mary. Eva married Lieutenant Colonel F. C. E. Lumb in 1920.
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1852 births
1925 deaths
People from British Hong Kong
Hong Kong architects
Hong Kong civil engineers
Architects from Somerset
English civil engineers
Members of the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong
Hong Kong businesspeople