Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton
Richard William Davenport Legh, 3rd NewtonDL,[1] JP (18 November 1888 – 11 June 1960) was a Baron in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[2]
Life[]
Legh was the son of the British diplomat and Conservative politician Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton PC, DL[3] His grandfather, William John Legh, 1st Baron Newton DL, was a British Conservative politician who was raised to the peerage as Baron Newton, of Newton-in-Makerfield in the County Palatine of Lancaster.[4]
Newton was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He was an attaché for the British Embassy at Istanbul then Vienna. He served during the First World War with the Lancashire Hussars. Later he was Honorary Colonel of the 7th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. During the Second World War he served at the War Office.
In 1914, he married the Hon. Helen Meysey-Thompson (d. 1958), 2nd daughter of the 1st Baron Knaresborough: they had three sons. His wife died in 1958.[5]
References[]
- ^ 'County Commissions, The County Palatine of Chester' The Times (London, England), Saturday, June 19, 1937, Issue 47715, p.17
- ^ 'Lord Newton' The Times (London, England), Tuesday, June 14, 1960, Issue 54797, p.15.
- ^ M. Brodie (May 2006). Legh, Thomas Wodehouse. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ "No. 26328". The London Gazette. 23 September 1892. p. 5384.
- ^ thePeerage.com
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