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Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton               1799-1892
  Dr Fred Leighton was born Sept. 18, 1799, in St Petersburg, where his father, Dr James Boniface Leighton, a Yorkshireman, was court physician to czars Alexander I and Nicholas I of Russia. Fred's mother was Frances I'Anson.
  Fred was trained in medicine at Edinburgh. Soon after his marriage to Augusta Susan they traveled to Russia, and in 1830 returned to England and settled in Scarborough. Toward the end of 1833 they re-located, to 22 Argyle Street, London. In 1834 Fred was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians, and that year Augusta Susan sat for her portrait by Edward Foster.
  From 1838 to 1841 Fred Leighton was lecturer in forensic medicine at Middlesex Hospital School. His one published lecture was "On the objects and material relations of the Medical Sciences" (1838). Deafness forced him to retire from medicine in 1841.
  Augusta Susan was high-strung and in delicate health. She was also rich. From 1838 the family traveled continually, looking for a suitable home. In 1840 Augusta Susan suffered from a serious attack of rheumatic fever, which probably damaged her heart. To help her recuperate Fred quit medicine in 1841 (he was now too deaf to practice) and in the summer of 1841 left England with his family for Europe, the 		  first of several long sojourns there, traveling through Germany, Switzerland and Italy. In Florence they were temporarily delayed by the illness of their daughter Lina. In Rome she and her brother learned Latin from a young priest.   During the winter the family traveled to Dresden where Fred employed private tutors for his son. In the summer of 1842 they were at Greenford, and the following winter in Berlin. Then to Munich, then Frankfurt. Fred's income was greatly augmented in 1843, when his father died. By June 1845 they were back in England.
  They spent the winter of 1845-46 in Florence, then back to Frankfurt, where Fred bought a large house. 1848 was not a good year to be in many parts of Europe, with all the revolutions taking place, so Fred took his family to Brussels, and, after the danger had passed, in 1849, to Paris. In early 1850 they were back in Frankfurt.
  In early 1853 they moved to 9 The Circus, Bath, to be near Fred's mother and also Augusta Susan's uncle, James Watson. In 1859 they were off to Florence with their daughter Gussie and the recently widowed Lina. After Augusta Susan's death in 1865, Fred returned to London, where he died on Jan. 24, 1892
Augusta Susan Nash                                1804-1865
Augusta was born on 28 December 1804, the daughter of George Augustus Nash and Lydia Watson, at Cornhill, London.
I have identified the following children.
Fanny Lydia Born 22 Mar 1827   Russia Died 27 Jul 1827
Alexandra "Lina" Born abt 1828   Russia Married Sutherland George Gordon Orr
Frederic Born 31 Dec 1830   Scarborough, Yorkshire  
James Born abt 1833   Scarborough, Yorkshire  
Augusta Neunburg
"Gussie"		 Born 16 Sep 1835   Scarborough, Yorkshire  
Birth of Parents
Frederic Septimus Leighton b: 18 Sep 1799         St Petersburg, Russia
son of Dr James Boniface Leighton and Frances I'Anson

Augusta Susan Nash b: 28 Dec 1804  c: 16 Jan 1805             St. Michael's, Cornhill, London
daughter of George Augustus Nash and Lydia Watson

Marriage
24 Jun 1826
Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton
Augusta Susan Nash

Children
Fanny Leighton b: 22 Mar 1827  c: 12 May 1827             St. Petersburg, Russia
daughter of Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton and Augusta Susan Nash       Died 27 Jul 1827
Alexandra Leighton b: 23 Dec 1828  c: 28 Jan 1829             St. Petersburg, Russia
daughter of Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton and Augusta Susan Nash
Frederic Leighton b: 31 Dec 1830  c: 06 Jan 1831             Scarborough, Yorkshire
son of Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton and Augusta Susan Nash
James Leighton b: abt 1833  c: 11 Aug 1833             Scarborough, Yorkshire
son of Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton and Augusta Susan Nash
Augusta Neunburg Leighton b: 16 Sep 1835  c: 26 Oct 1835             Saint James, Westminster
daughter of Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton and Augusta Susan Nash

Death
Augusta Susan (Nash) Leighton Died abt 1865         1865 1Q Bath 5c 577

1871 Census RG10-35 3 April 1871 Kensington, London
Holland Park Road
Frederick Leighton (u)
Plus 3 Servants 		Age 40 Artist (Painter) Scarborough Yorkshire 31 Dec 1830

1881 Census RG11-30 4 April 1881 Kensington, London
11 Kensington-park-gardens
Frederic Leighton (Widower)
Sutherland Orr (Dau)(Widow)
Plus 4 Servants 		Age 81
Age 51 		Med. Doctor, retired Welbeck Street
St. Petersburg 		London
Russia 		18 Sep 1799
abt 1829

1891 Census RG12-22 6 April 1891 Kensington, London
11 Kensington-park-gardens
Frederic S. Leighton (Widower)
Alexandra Orr (Dau)(Widow)
Plus 4 Servants 		Age 91
Age 62 		Living on own means
Living on own means 		Welbeck Street
St. Petersburg 		London
Russia 		18 Sep 1799
abt 1829

Death
Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton Died 24 Jan 1892   London       1892 1Q Kensington 1a 120

The Times, Tuesday, Jan 26, 1892                         DEATHS
  On the 24th Inst., at 11 Kensington-park-gardens, Frederic Septimus Leighton, aged 92.
LONDON   1 Mar 1892                         Probate
LEIGHTON, Frederic Septimus, of 11 Kensington Park Gardens, Middlesex, M.D. died 24 January 1892, Probate London 1 March, to Sir Frederic Leighton, baronet, P.R.A., and Alexandra Orr, and Augusta Newnburg Matthews, widows.   Effects £65,929 6s. 4d.

SPECIAL THANKS  to John Stewart, a descendant of Capt. William Dixon, R.A, for the details provided above.