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Leighton Asia, a construction contractor headquartered in Hong Kong Leighton Marshalling Yard , former railway yard in Perth, Australia Leighton Middle School , a middle school in Leighton Buzzard, England
Leighton is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Leighton Baines (born 1984), English footballer; Leighton Clarkson (born 2001), English footballer;
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner who formed a seven-member "Brotherhood" partly modelled on the Nazarene movement. [1]
Leighton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Leighton (1587–1644), Scottish physician and pamphleteer; Alexander H. Leighton (1908–2007), sociologist and psychiatrist; Amanda Leighton (born 1993), American actress; Baron Leighton of St Mellons, UK peerage title; Bernardo Leighton, Chilean Christian Democrat
The Leighton Baronetcy was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 February 1886. For more information on this creation, see Baron Leighton . Leighton baronets, of Wattlesborough (1693)
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical , and classical subject matter in an academic style .
According to Alexander H. Leighton, "morale is the capacity of a group of people to pull together persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common purpose". [2] With good morale, a force will be less likely to give up or surrender. Morale is usually assessed at a collective, rather than an individual level.
Sir William Leighton (/ ˈ l eɪ t ən / LAY-tən; c. 1565 – buried 31 July 1622) was a Jacobean composer and editor who published The Teares and Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614). He was also a politician.