Francis Knyvett Leighton
1807–81
Clergyman and university administrator. B.A., Oxford, 1828; Fellow of All Souls’ College, 1829–43. Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, 1866–70. Canon of Westminster, 1868–81.
Sources
Alum. Oxon.
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
Alum. Oxon.: Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1886: … with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university. Alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated by Joseph Foster. 8 vols. London and Oxford: Parker & Co. 1887–91.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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