Baron Newton

Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Lyme Park, the former seat of the Legh family

Baron Newton, of Newton-in-Makerfield in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created in 1892 for the Conservative politician William Legh, who had earlier represented Lancashire South and Cheshire East in the House of Commons.

Overview

Both his son, the second Baron, and his great-grandson, the fourth Baron, were Conservative government ministers. As of 2017[update] the title is held by the latter's eldest son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 1992.

The family seat is Laughton Park Farm, near Lewes, East Sussex. The ancestral seat was Lyme Park, near Disley, Cheshire. It was given to the National Trust in 1946 by the third Baron Newton.[2]

Barons Newton (1892)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Piers Richard Legh (b. 1979)

Arms

Coat of arms of Baron Newton
Crest
Issuant out of a ducal coronet Or a ram's head Argent armed Or in the mouth a laurel slip Vert the whole debruised by a pallet wavy Azure.[3]
Escutcheon
Gules a cross engrailed Argent in the chief point on an inescutcheon Sable semee of estoiles an arm in armour embowed of the second the hand Proper holding a pennon Silver all within a bordure wavy Or.
Supporters
Two mastiffs Proper collared Sable.
Motto
En Dieu Est Ma Foi (In God Is My Faith)

Notes

  1. ^ "No. 26328". The London Gazette. 23 September 1892. p. 5384.
  2. ^ Waterson, Merlin (1975). Lyme Park. National Trust. p. 8.
  3. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 3807.

References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
  • Kidd, Charles, ed. (1903). Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. London: Dean and son. p. 664.
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]

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