About Francis Leighton
Lived 1806 – 1881 (aged 75). Francis Leighton was a British writer.
Francis Knyvett Leighton (2 July 1806 – 13 October 1881) was an English academic and priest, who was Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1858 until his death.
Life Leighton was educated at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Trinity College on 24 June 1823 at the age of 16. He was a demy (scholar) at Magdalen College from 1823 to 1829, obtaining a second-class BA degree in 1828, and winning a prize for Latin verse in 1826. (a post in which he was "distinguished by his courtesy and hospitality", He was described as being "distinguished by an amiable and refined, but genial courtesy".
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Who was Francis Leighton?
Academic administrator and clergyman
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Francis Leighton was born on 2 July 1806.
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Francis Leighton died on 13 October 1881.
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Francis Leighton was a writer.
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Francis Leighton was British.
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