Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton
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Legh was the son of the British diplomat and Conservative politician Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton PC, DL[3] His grandfather, William 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 Helen Meysey-Thompson (d. 1958), 2nd daughter of the 1st Baron Knaresborough: they had three sons, including Peter who succeeded to his father's title. His wife died in 1958.
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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.
- ↑ Brodie, M. "Legh, Thomas Wodehouse". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34479. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ "No. 26328". The London Gazette. 23 September 1892. p. 5384.
- ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 3807.
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