Family and Education
b. 12 Aug. 1623, 1st s. of Piers Legh (d. 1624) of Lyme, and Anne, da. of Sir John Savile† of Howley, Yorks.Earwaker, E. Cheshire, ii. 305; Newton, House of Lyme, 107-8. educ. privately (Mr Woodcock) ?-c.1636;Newton, House of Lyme, 125, 151. Amersham g.s. Bucks. c.1637;Newton, House of Lyme, 152. Oriel, Oxf. 25 Jan. 1639.Al. Ox. unm. suc. gdfa. 17 Feb. 1636.Earwaker, E. Cheshire, ii. 304. d. 2 Feb. 1642.Earwaker, E. Cheshire, ii. 305.
Offices Held
Parlimentarian
: of Lyme, Cheshire., Prestbury.
Likenesses
Likenesses: ?oils, 1636.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
LEGH, Peter (1623-42), of Lyme, Prestbury, Cheshire.
Will
1 Feb. 1642.Newton, House of Lyme, 171.
Estates
in 1636, inherited the family’s extensive estates in Cheshire, Lancs. and Westmld.DL7/28/32; Newton, House of Lyme, 146. At his d. estate inc. manors of Bradley in Burtonwood, Dalton, Haydock and Newton, Lancs. and of Handley, Cheshire; capital messuage of Bradley and Bradley Park; property in Broomedge, Disley, Grappenhall, Heatley, Kettleshulme, Latchford, Lyme Handley, Macclesfield, Marple, Northbury, Offerton, Sutton, Warburton, Woolston and Yeardsley cum Whaley, Cheshire; in Allerton, Bold, Bretherton, ‘Bridgemoor’, Bruche, Childwall, Croston, Dalton, Eccleston, Fernhead, Garston, Golborne, Great and Little Sankey, Haydock, Hindley, Hutton, Kenyon, Lowton, Much Hoole, Much Woolton, Newton, Norley, Orford, Pemberton, Penketh, Poulton, Prescot, Shevington, Ulnes Walston, Walton-in-the-Dale and Warrington, Lancs.; in Aykbank, Westmld.; and advowson of Claughton, Lancs.DL7/29/16; JRL, Legh of Lyme muns. box R, D no. 3; Ducatus Lancastriae ed. R. J. Harper, J. Caley, W. Minchin (1823-34), pt. 2, 103.
Oxford 1644
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