William John Legh, 1st Baron Newton, (19 December 1828 – 15 December 1898), was a British

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politician and

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officer. Legh was the son of William Legh. He sat as a

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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

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. On 5 May 1866 he was commissioned as

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to command the

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, 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

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, who became a government minister. His great-grandson

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, was also a Conservative politician and government minister. Lady Newton died in 1901.

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References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Newton, William Legh, 1st Baron 1828 births 1898 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Deputy Lieutenants of Cheshire Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs who were granted peerages Place of birth missing Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria