 He passed it on to his son John Shaw Leigh who later went on to buy Luton Hoo.By the twentieth century the area was in the hands of the trustees of Madame de Falbe, his son John Gerard Leigh's widow, who had remarried to Christian de Falbe, the Danish ambassador.Until 1 April 1974, Grange, along with the rest of the Wirral, was part of the county of Cheshire.