Thomas Peter Legh

{{short description|British Member of Parliament}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox MP

| honorific_prefix =

| name = Thomas Peter Legh

| honorific_suffix = KJ

| image =James Cranke the younger (1748-1826) - Colonel Thomas Peter Legh (1753–1797) - 499954 - National Trust.jpg

| alt =

| caption =Legh in his cavalry uniform {{circa}}1795

| constituency_MP =Newton

| term_start =1780

| term_end =1797

| birth_date ={{circa}}1754

| death_date =7 August 1797

| alma_mater =Brasenose College, Oxford

| allegiance = Kingdom of Great Britain

| branch = British Army

| serviceyears = 1794–1797

| rank = Colonel

| unit =

| commands = Lancashire Fencible Cavalry

| awards = Knight of the Order of Saint Joachim

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Thomas Peter Legh (1754–1797), was a British Member of Parliament.

Born about 1754 he was the first son of Reverend Ashburnham Legh of Golborne and Charlotte Elizabeth Legh née Egerton.{{cite book|last1=Port|first1=M.H.|editor=R. G. Thorne|title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/legh-thomas-peter-1754-97|volume=2|year=1986|publisher=History of Parliament Trust|isbn=978-0-436-52101-0|access-date=10 April 2020}}

He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford.

In 1794 he spent over £20,000 raising a regiment of fencible cavalry, The Lancashire Fencible Cavalry, to which he was appointed Colonel.{{efn|name=nt2}}{{Citation |author=British War Office|date=22 June 1797 |title=List of the officers of the several regiments and corps of fencible cavalry and infantry: of the officers of the militia [etc.] |edition=5 |page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R_ENAAAAQAAJ|accessdate=10 April 2020}}

Legh was Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Newton in Lancashire from 1780 until his death in 1797.

He died on 7 August 1797 leaving seven illegitimate children and his estates to his eldest son, Thomas Legh.