Peter Legh (died 1744)
Peter Legh may refer to: * Peter Legh (died 1642), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (MP for Cheshire), Member of Parliament for Cheshire and Wigan * Peter Legh (died 1672), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (died 1744), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1706–1792), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1723–1804), Member of Parliament for Ilchester * Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton (6 April 1915 – 16 June 1992), was a British Conservative politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s. Newton was the son of Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton and Helen Wini ...

Peter Legh (died 1642)
Peter Legh (c.1622/23 – 2 February 1642) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and his death in 1642. He died after fighting a duel. Legh of Lyme Hall, Cheshire, was the grandson of Sir Peter Legh, MP for Wigan in 1586 and 1589. His father, Piers,Entry reference Peter Le(i)gh. died while he was a child and he succeeded to his grandfather's estates on 17 February 1636. He was sent to a grammar school at Amersham, Buckinghamshire under Dr Robert Challenor and then to Oriel College, Oxford, which he entered on 25 January 1638/39 aged sixteen. In November 1640, Legh, aged about seventeen, was elected Member of Parliament for Newton in the Long Parliament. On 27 January 1642 he attended a play and after a mistaken piece of horseplay was injured in a duel by Valentine Browne, a student of Gray's Inn and nephew of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and died six days later at a lodging in Acton, Middlesex.Bromley Davenport, ''The House of Lyme''. The write ...
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Peter Legh (MP For Cheshire)
Peter Legh may refer to: * Peter Legh (died 1642), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (MP for Cheshire), Member of Parliament for Cheshire and Wigan * Peter Legh (died 1672), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (died 1744), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1706–1792), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1723–1804), Member of Parliament for Ilchester * Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton (6 April 1915 – 16 June 1992), was a British Conservative politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s. Newton was the son of Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton and Helen Wini ...

Cheshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Cheshire is a former United Kingdom parliamentary constituency for the county of Cheshire. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. As a county palatine it was unrepresented in the Parliament until the Chester and Cheshire (Constituencies) Act 1542 (34 & 35 Hen VIII. c. 13). Cheshire was represented by two Knights of the Shire from 1545, with only County Durham out of the English counties being left unrepresented after that. It was divided between the constituencies of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1832. Members of Parliament 1545–1659 * ''Constituency created'' (1545) * ''Four members returned to First Protectorate Parliament'' (1654) 1659–1832 * ''Two members returned to Third Protectorate Parliament'' (1659) *''Constituency abolished'' (1832) See also *List of former United Kingdom Parliament constitue ...
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Peter Legh (died 1672)
Peter Legh may refer to: * Peter Legh (died 1642), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (MP for Cheshire), Member of Parliament for Cheshire and Wigan * Peter Legh (died 1672), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (died 1744), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1706–1792), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1723–1804), Member of Parliament for Ilchester * Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton (6 April 1915 – 16 June 1992), was a British Conservative politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s. Newton was the son of Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton and Helen Winif ...

Newton (UK Parliament Constituency)
Newton was a parliamentary borough in the county of Lancashire, in England. It was represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1559 to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until its abolition in 1832. In 1885 a county constituency with the same name was created and represented by one Member of Parliament. This seat was abolished in 1983. Parliamentary borough The borough consisted of the parish of Newton-le-Willows in the Makerfield district of South Lancashire. It was first enfranchised in 1558 (though the Parliament so summoned did not meet until the following year), and was a rotten borough from its inception: Newton was barely more than a village even at this stage, and so entirely dominated by the local landowner that its first return of members described it bluntly as ''"the borough of Sir Thomas Langton, knight, baron of Newton within his ...
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Peter Legh (died 1744)
Peter Legh may refer to: * Peter Legh (died 1642), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (MP for Cheshire), Member of Parliament for Cheshire and Wigan * Peter Legh (died 1672), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (died 1744), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1706–1792), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1723–1804), Member of Parliament for Ilchester * Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton (6 April 1915 – 16 June 1992), was a British Conservative politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s. Newton was the son of Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton and Helen Wini ...

Peter Legh (1706–1792)
Peter Legh may refer to: * Peter Legh (died 1642), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (MP for Cheshire), Member of Parliament for Cheshire and Wigan * Peter Legh (died 1672), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (died 1744), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1706–1792), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1723–1804), Member of Parliament for Ilchester * Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton (6 April 1915 – 16 June 1992), was a British Conservative politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s. Newton was the son of Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton and Helen Wini ...

Peter Legh (1723–1804)
Peter Legh may refer to: * Peter Legh (died 1642), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (MP for Cheshire), Member of Parliament for Cheshire and Wigan * Peter Legh (died 1672), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (died 1744), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1706–1792), Member of Parliament for Newton * Peter Legh (1723–1804), Member of Parliament for Ilchester * Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton (6 April 1915 – 16 June 1992), was a British Conservative politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s. Newton was the son of Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton and Helen Winif ...

Ilchester (UK Parliament Constituency)
Ilchester was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1832. It was one of the most notoriously corrupt rotten boroughs. History The constituency was a parliamentary borough in Somerset, first represented in the English Parliament in 1298 but thereafter returning MPs only occasionally until its right to representation was revived by a resolution of the House of Commons in 1621. The borough comprised the parish of Ilchester, originally a market town of some size but greatly declined by the 19th century; its former lace and silk industries were almost entirely extinct, and it subsisted mainly on trade arising from its position on the New Direct Road, the main road between London and Exeter (now the A303) and the Fosse Way. In 1831, the population of the borough was approximately ...
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