William Leighton was a composer and also MP for Much Wenlock.
William Leighton may also refer to:
William T. Leighton, architect William Leighton (Lord Mayor of London), Lord Mayor of London in 1806 William Allport Leighton, botanist William Leighton (Poet), 19th Century writer of Sons of Godwin (1876), Change (1878), Shakespeare's Dream and Other Poems (1881), etc., and manager of a glass factory. William Leighton Sr (glassmaker) - glassmaker and chemist who discovered a new formula for soda-lime glass in 1864 that revolutionized the American glassmaking industry
See also
William Layton (disambiguation)