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George Cornwall Legh
JP DL MP (30 August 1804 – 16 June 1877) was a 19th-century British
Conservative
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Member of Parliament
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who represented
Mid Cheshire.
Background and education
The head of an old
Cheshire
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family, Legh was the eldest son of George John Legh of East Hall,
High Legh
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, and Mary, daughter of
John Blackburne. He was educated at
Eton College
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and
Christ Church, Oxford
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.
Legh served as a
major
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in the
2nd Royal Cheshire Militia.
[ Google Books] He was also a
deputy lieutenant and
justice of the peace
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for Cheshire and served as
high sheriff of the county in 1838.
Political career
Legh was elected to
House of Commons
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for
Cheshire North in 1841, a
seat
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he held until 1847 and again between 1848 and 1868, when it was abolished and he was instead returned for the newly created
Mid Cheshire constituency, which he represented until 1873.
Family
Legh married Louisa Charlotte, daughter of Edward Taylor, in 1828. There were no surviving children from their marriage. He died in June 1877, aged 72, and was succeeded in the family
estate by descendants of his brother, later
Barons Grey of Codnor
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.
References
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1804 births
1877 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1841–1847
UK MPs 1847–1852
UK MPs 1852–1857
UK MPs 1857–1859
UK MPs 1859–1865
UK MPs 1865–1868
UK MPs 1868–1874
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Deputy Lieutenants of Cheshire
High Sheriffs of Cheshire