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Leigh

Leigh , town (1991 pop. 42,627), Wigan metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. Industries include cotton and rayon mills, metalworks, and machinery and electrical goods plants.

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Leigh, Augusta

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Leigh, Augusta (1784–1851), half-sister of Lord Byron, daughter of his father by the latter's earlier marriage to Lady Carmarthen. Augusta's relations with Byron have been the subject of much speculation, and it is probable that he was the father of her daughter, Elizabeth Medora, born in 1814.

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Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh see under Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier of Brighton .

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