Leigh Creek Monument

The panel's English nobleman was not yet a peer, and his middle initial was not E. Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh was the eldest son and heir of the second Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire, and a sitting Member of Parliament, a Liberal elected for South Warwickshire in 1880. He died in the Bighorns on September 15, 1884, at thirty-three, unmarried, a seat in the Commons left empty by a fall into Tensleep Canyon. The barony passed in time to his younger brother Francis, and Leigh was carried home to Stoneleigh for burial.

What the plaque says

Leigh Creek Monument At the rim above Tensleep Canyon is the Leigh Creek Monument, erected in 1889 in memory of English nobleman Gilbert E. Leigh. Leigh, a lifelong big game hunter and outdoor enthusiast, went missing in the fall of 1884 during a hunting expedition. Following his disappearance, men from the local area searched for Leigh; unfortunately, after a week of searching, they found Leigh's body and discovered that he had fallen 100 feet to his death over the canyon wall while in pursuit of mountain sheep. The monument, erected by well known Sheridan area guide Robert Stewart, is laid up of native stone in dry mortar and is approximately ten feet square at the base. It contains a marble slab with an inscription memorializing Leigh who was buried in Stoneleigh, England.

Where it stands

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