Sir Charlton Leighton, 4th Baronet (c.1747–9 September 1784) was a British politician who sat in the

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between 1774 and 1784. Leighton was the son of Sir Charlton Leighton, 3rd Baronet and his first wife Anna Maria Mytton, daughter of Richard Mytton of

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, near

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. He was educated at

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and was admitted at

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on 17 September 1763 aged 16. In the 1774 general election Leighton contested

with

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and was elected as Member of Parliament, but he was unseated on petition in 1775. He succeeded his father in the

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and to

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on 5 May 1780. At the 1780 general election he was returned unopposed at Shrewsbury and was again returned unopposed there in

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. Leighton died unmarried on 9 September 1784 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his half-brother Robert.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leighton, Sir Charlton, 4th Baronet 1784 deaths People educated at Shrewsbury School Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of England Year of birth uncertain