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One good thing about trekking into the city almost daily to attend court is that you get to find out "stuff" that you never knew before.  For example, Leigh Street is a very well known street which joins Hindley Street and Currie Street, and named after Mr. Leigh.  Mr. Leigh never visited South Australia.

(Taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography). In June 1837, through his Adelaide agent (Sir) John Morphett, Leigh bought seven town acres (2.8 ha) and several country sections in the colony. Morphett made them all income producing. In 1840 Leigh donated two town acres between Hindley and Currie streets, bordering what was named Leigh Street, to the S.P.G., with a written declaration of his intention to add 400 acres (161.87 ha) of rural land for a glebe and £2000 to build a church and parsonage on it. Pending this development, the society held Leigh's £2000 in trust. In the early 1840s the rents from the Leigh Street properties provided three quarters of the Church of England's South Australian income.