The second son of Sir Peter Leicester, fourth baronet and brother of the first baron de Tabley; he was a contemporary of Thomas Creevey at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1791 he married Letitia Smyth Owen, of Condover, Shropshire.

REFERENCES TO Henry Augustus Leicester:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 1 September 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)