# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-leigh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:19:32.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-leigh"
name: "Edward Leigh"
slug: "edward-leigh"
description: "Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gainsborough, previously Gainsborough and Horncastle, since 1983. Parliament's longest-serving MP since 2024, Leigh is styled Father of the House."
tagline: "British politician (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Sir_Edward_Leigh_crop_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1950-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.12
  momentum:             3.161648177496039
  historical:           9.597676
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/EdwardLeighGB"
    handle:    "EdwardLeighGB"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/edwardleighmp/"
    handle:    "edwardleighmp"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.edwardleigh.org.uk/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A_(%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A)"
    title: "إدوارد لي (سياسي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ادوارد لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leigh"
    title: "Edward Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leigh"
    title: "Edward Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leigh_(homme_politique)"
    title: "Edward Leigh (homme politique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leigh_(politico)"
    title: "Edward Leigh (politico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardus_Leigh"
    title: "Eduardus Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leigh"
    title: "Edward Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leigh"
    title: "Edward Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%84%9B%E5%BE%B7%E8%8F%AF%C2%B7%E6%9D%8E"
    title: "愛德華·李"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump