of Sir Edward Leighton, was custos rotulorum for Shropshire, and Sir Thomas Leighton, the Governor of Jersey who married Elizabeth Knollys (a daughter of Catherine Carey and sister of Lettice Knollys). Through his daughter Jane, he was a grandfather of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre, who was executed for murder in 1541. Notes References Knights of the Garter 1460s births 1532 deaths 16th-century English nobility Edward Edward 2