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Charles Legh Shuldham Cornwall-Legh, 5th Baron Grey of Codnor (1903–1996) (abeyance terminated 1989) [10] Richard Henry Cornwall-Legh, 6th Baron Grey of Codnor (b. 1936) The heir apparent is the present holder's son Richard Stephen Cayley Cornwall-Legh (b. 1976). The heir apparent's heir-in-line is his son Caspian Richard Cornwall-Legh (b. 2008)
Unusually this village was the seat of two ancient landed gentry families for generations, namely: Leigh of West Hall and Cornwall-Legh of East Hall.Both halls have now been demolished, but both families are still represented today, the head of the "West Hall" family being Sir Edward Leigh MP but no longer associated or living within the parish and that of the "East Hall" family being headed ...
The Leghs of Adlington were established by Robert de Leigh who inherited the lordship of the manor of Adlington from his mother Elena de Corona (née de Baguley). His father, John de Leigh, who was lord of the manor of Over Knutsford and seated at Norbury Booths, descended in the male line from the Venable family.
Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton (1888–1960) donated Lyme Park to The National Trust in 1946. [2] Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton (1915–1992) was also a politician. Richard Thomas Legh, 5th Baron Newton (born 11 January 1950) lives at Laughton Park in Sussex. [11] Hon. Piers Richard Legh (born 25 October 1979) is heir apparent to the Newton title.
However, Piers was executed two years later by Richard's rival for the throne, Henry Bolingbroke. [6] When in 1415 Sir Piers Legh II was wounded in the Battle of Agincourt, his mastiff stood over and protected him for many hours through the battle. The mastiff was later returned to Legh's home and was the foundation of the Lyme Hall Mastiffs ...
He was born 5 January 1209 at Winchester Castle, the second son of John, King of England, and Isabella, Countess of Angoulême.He was made High Sheriff of Berkshire at age eight, was styled Count of Poitou from 1225 and in the same year, at the age of sixteen, his brother King Henry III gave him Cornwall as a birthday present, making him High Sheriff of Cornwall.
Mary Helena Cornwall Legh, (20 May 1857 – 18 December 1941) also known as ("Nellie" Cornwall Legh) was a British Anglican missionary, who late in life devoted herself to the welfare, education and medical care of leprosy patients in Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
One of Watt's other buildings. the King's Coffee House and Gaskell Memorial Tower, is located in the centre of the town, and his series of more eccentric houses were built 1900–1907, stretching along Legh Road, to the southeast of the town. [3] Watt lived in one of these, The Round House, until 1913.