Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton

Richard William Davenport Legh, 3rd Newton DL,[1] JP (18 November 1888; 11 June 1960) was a Baron in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[2]

Legh was the son of the British diplomat and Conservative politician Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton PC, DL[3] His grandfather, William John Legh, 1st Baron Newton DL, was a British Conservative politician who was raised to the peerage as Baron Newton, of Newton-in-Makerfield in the County Palatine of Lancaster.[4]

Newton was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He was an attaché for the British Embassy at Istanbul then Vienna. He served during the First World War with the Lancashire Hussars. Later he was Honorary Colonel of the 7th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. During the Second World War he served at the War Office.

In 1914, he married theHon. Helen Meysey-Thompson (d 1958), 2nd daughter of the 1st Baron Knaresborough, They had three sons. His wife died in 1958.[5]