Baron Newton

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Baron Newton, of Newton-in-Makerfield in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a UK peerage title created in 1892 for Conservative politician William Legh, who had represented Lancashire South and Cheshire East in Parliament. The second Baron and the fourth Baron were Conservative government ministers. As of 2017, the title is held by 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, which the third Baron Newton gave to the National Trust in 1946. The heir apparent is the current holder's son, Piers Richard Legh (b. 1979).