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John Legh (1668–1739), of Adlington, Cheshire, was an English Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall in 1715–1722. "LEGH, John (1668-1739), of Adlington...

John Legh may refer to: John Legh (18th century MP) for Bodmin John Legh (14th century MP) for Surrey John Leigh (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...

their estates throughout the 18th and 19th centuries until the Egerton Leighs sold their High Legh estate to the Cornwall-Leghs just before World War I. When...

English doctor and public health administrator John Legh (disambiguation) John Lee (disambiguation) John Lea (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...

the late 11th Century. The progenitor of the family descended from Denyas can be traced to William De'Anyers who married Agnes de Legh in 1270, and in...

(son of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater). Leigh inherited the ancestral seat of West Hall together with the lordship of the manor of High Legh and the...

bishop of Liverpool. He was the eldest son of John Ryle, private banker, of Park House, Macclesfield, M.P. for Macclesfield 1833–7, and Susanna, daughter...

TV adaptation was actually filmed in Lacock, Wiltshire. Notably, in 1987 Legh Road in Knutsford, designed by Richard Harding Watt, doubled for Colonial...

ministers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but became more favourable to the Whig interest after John Ramsbottom (MP 1810–1845) was elected...

War. In 1709 a later John Glanville sold the manor to Thomas Bennet, from whom it descended via the female line through the Legh, Keck and Calley families...

designs of Inigo Jones, was noted as the residence of 18th-century industrialist and ironmaster John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson. The estate was located on the...

town: one in 1422 by the Legh family, and one in 1504 by Thomas Savage. In 1502, Macclesfield Grammar School was founded by Sir John Percyvale. No proof exists...

Household. By the end of the 17th century the office of Treasurer was more or less a sinecure, and in the 18th and 19th centuries it was usually occupied by...

Robert Thyer (1709 – 27 October 1781) was an 18th-century British writer and literary editor, best known as Chetham's Librarian. Son of Robert Thyer, a...

needed] The Chiltern Hundreds last needed a Crown Steward in the 18th century. When John Pitt wished to vacate his seat for Wareham in order to stand for...

Anthony James Keck who became a politician and married Elizabeth Legh (daughter of Peter Legh of Lyme). The couple lived at Stoughton Grange and had six children...

architect Sir John Soane) in the 18th and 19th centuries took place outside the parish in the churchyard of St Pancras old church John Wesley, the English...

contributions to the fierce propaganda war between Tories and Whigs in the early 18th century. In reign of Queen Anne he wrote and published two satirical poems, Faction...

Richard Legh of Lyme Hall. On April 1678, Yale was promoted to the rank of Factor, doubling his salary. In June arrived the Welsh chaplain John Evans,...

operating pumps and winding gear. In the late 18th century, the Warrens of Poynton co-operated with the Leghs of Lyme to work the Cannel and Sheepwash seams...