LEGH, Peter (1707-92), of Lyme Hall, Cheshire.

Legh was the nephew of Peter Legh of Lyme, the non-juring proprietor of the borough of Newton. After his father’s death he was brought up by his uncle, who on his own son’s death made him his heirE. Legh, Baroness Newton, House of Lyme, 386-7. and returned him for Newton in succession to William Shippen. In 1745 he and some other Cheshire Tories are said to have met at Lyme to consider joining the rebels but at his suggestion decided against it.Ibid. 388-9; W. Beamont, House of Lyme, 185-6. In 1746 he voted against the Hanoverians. He died 20 May 1792.