John Farley Leith

John Farley Leith, QC (5 May 1808 – 4 April 1887)[1] was a British lawyer and Liberal politician.

John Farley Leith

1879 caricature of John Farley Leith in Vanity Fair
Member of Parliament
for Aberdeen
In office
29 June 1872  3 April 1880
Preceded byWilliam Henry Sykes
Succeeded byJohn Webster
Personal details
Born5 May 1808
Died (aged 78)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
EducationUniversity of Aberdeen

He was the eldest son of James Urquhart Murray Leith, of Barrach, Aberdeenshire and educated at Marischal College and Aberdeen University. He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1830.[2]

He practised as a barrister in the Calcutta High Court from 1832 to 1846 and was then Professor of Law at the East India Company's Haileybury College from 1853 to 1857. He was made QC in 1872 and a bencher in 1874.[3]

He was elected MP for Aberdeen at a by-election in 1872 but stood down at the 1880 general election.[4]

He died in 1887. In 1832 he had married Alicia Anne, the daughter of Samuel Tomkins of London, with whom he had issue.[2]

References

  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 1)
  2. "Men at the Bar". Wikisource. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. Dictionary of Indian Biography. p. 249.
  4. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Henry Sykes
Member of Parliament for Aberdeen
18721880
Succeeded by
John Webster


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