John Farley Leith
John Farley Leith, QC was a British lawyer and Liberal politician.
He was the eldest son of James Urquhart Murray Leith, of Barrach, Aberdeenshire and educated at Marischal College and Aberdeen University. He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1830.
He practised as a barrister in the Calcutta High Court from 1832 to 1846 and was then
Professor of Law at the East India Company's Haileybury College from 1853 to 1857. He was made QC in 1872 and a bencher in 1874.
He was elected MP for Aberdeen at a by-election in 1872 but stood down at the 1880 general election.
He died in 1887. In 1832 he had married Alicia Anne, the daughter of Samuel Tomkins of London, with whom he had issue.
