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William Legh, 1st Baron Newton
b.19 Dec 1828
d.15 Dec 1898
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  1. Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron Newton
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Name William Legh, 1st Baron Newton
Gender Male
Birth[1] 19 Dec 1828
Marriage to Emily Jane Wodehouse
Death[1] 15 Dec 1898
Reference Number Q8014460 (Wikidata)


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William John Legh, 1st Baron Newton, (19 December 1828 – 15 December 1898), was a British Conservative politician and Volunteer officer.

Legh was the son of William Legh. He sat as a Member of Parliament for Lancashire South from 1859 to 1865 and for Cheshire East from 1868 to 1885. On 27 August 1892 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Newton, of Newton-in-Makerfield in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

On 5 May 1866 he was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel to command the 4th Administrative Battalion, Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, and after his period of command he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the part-time battalion on 25 January 1873.

Lord Newton married Emily Jane, daughter of the Venerable Charles Nourse Wodehouse, Archdeacon of Norwich, in 1856. He died in December 1898, aged 69, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Thomas, who became a government minister. His great-grandson Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton, was also a Conservative politician and government minister. Lady Newton died in 1901.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Legh, 1st Baron Newton, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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