Lord Edward Chandos Leigh 2nd Baron Leigh.1st Class Cricketer & MCC President. Stoneleigh Abbey, Jane Austen's Cousin. Founder of the London Playing Fields Society. 2 letters "signed". 1865-66. Rare!

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2 "signed" letters from Stoneleigh Abbey to Mr Holbeche in 1865-6, polite notes stating after a meeting he will attend re-the Wardens Choice & a Masonic Lodge affair at Sutton Coldfield, "He will be unable to stop and must be at home on both evenings". The Holbeche's a prominent Sutton family lived later at "Beaconsfield House" in Malvern and at the Wardens Lodge in Sutton. These two autographs signed "Leigh" are rare and as onetime MCC president and I Zingari player and England Cricketer for over 20 years a good addition for any cricketing autograph hunter. He wrote an autobiography in 1913 "Bar Bat and Bit". Died in 1915 same year as his friend WG Grace and only 6 days after his 2nd son was killed at "Aubers Ridge" and a year after his first son was killed at Mons, the first Harrovian to be killed. (2 letters signed) Some edge wear and some age browning, backed onto old album blued paper, but no loss to content. Good to VG. *Jane Austen was cousin to his father and visited and wrote into Mansfield Park her impressions of her visit as the fictional Sotheran Court. N° de ref. del artículo 7784

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