Thomas Legh (disambiguation)
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Thomas Legh may refer to:
- Thomas Legh (lawyer)Thomas Legh (lawyer)Sir Thomas Legh was an English jurist and diplomat, a principal agent of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.-Life:...
died 1545, English ambassador to Denmark and a jurist involved in Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries - Thomas Legh (1636-1697), MP for LiverpoolLiverpool (UK Parliament constituency)Liverpool was a Borough constituency in the county of Lancashire of the House of Commons for the Parliament of England to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It was represented by two Members of Parliament...
, 1685–1689 - Thomas Legh (died 1703), MP for NewtonNewton (UK Parliament constituency)Newton was a parliamentary borough in the county of Lancashire, in England. It was represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1559 to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
, 1698–1702 and 1702–1703 - Thomas Legh (1675-1717), MP for NewtonNewton (UK Parliament constituency)Newton was a parliamentary borough in the county of Lancashire, in England. It was represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1559 to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
, 1701–1713 - Col. Thomas Peter Legh (1753–1797), MP for Newton
- Thomas Legh (died 1857)Thomas Legh (died 1857)Thomas Legh FRS was a politician in England.He was Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of Newton in Lancashire from 1814 until the borough was disenfrachised at the 1832 general election.- External links :...
(c.1793–1857), MP for Newton, 1814–1832 - Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron NewtonThomas Legh, 2nd Baron NewtonThomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton PC, DL , was a British diplomat and Conservative politician who served as Paymaster-General during the First World War.-Background and education:...
(1857–1942), MP for Newton 1886–1898, Paymaster-General 1915–1916 - Thomas Legh ClaughtonThomas Legh ClaughtonThomas Legh Claughton was a British academic, poet and clergyman. He was professor of poetry at Oxford University from 1852 to 1857; Bishop of Rochester; and the first Bishop of St Albans.-Biography:...
, British academic, poet and clergyman