Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere

For other people named Nicholas Lechmere, see Nicholas Lechmere (disambiguation).

Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere PC (5 August 1675  18 June 1727) was an English lawyer and politician who served as Attorney-General and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Life

He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and was called to the bar as a member of Middle Temple in 1698. He took silk in 1708.[1]

He entered Parliament in 1708 as Member for Appleby, and subsequently also represented Cockermouth and Tewkesbury. In 1714 he was appointed Solicitor-General. In 1718, he was appointed Attorney-General and also became a Privy Counsellor and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. On 4 September 1721, having ceased to be attorney-general, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lechmere of Evesham in the County of Worcester.[2]

Lechmere was also a collaborator with Richard Steele on his pamphlet The Crisis.[1]

He died from a sudden attack of apoplexy, while seated at table, at Campden House, Kensington, on 18 June 1727, and was buried at Hanley Castle, where there is a tablet inscribed to his memory. [1]

Family

Elizabeth Howard (1701-1739) (George Knapton, circa 1830)

He married Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, but they had no children and his title became extinct on his death in 1727.

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Walford, Edward (1892). "Lechmere, Nicholas (1675-1727)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
James Grahme
William Harvey
Member of Parliament for Appleby
with Edward Duncombe

17081710
Succeeded by
Edward Duncombe
Thomas Lutwyche
Preceded by
James Stanhope
Albemarle Bertie
Member of Parliament for Cockermouth
with James Stanhope 1710–1713
Joseph Musgrave 1713-1715
James Stanhope 1715–1717
Sir Thomas Pengelly 1717

17101717
Succeeded by
Sir Thomas Pengelly
Lord Percy Seymour
Preceded by
William Dowdeswell
Anthony Lechmere
Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury
with William Dowdeswell

17171721
Succeeded by
William Dowdeswell
The Viscount Gage
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
New creation
Baron Lechmere
1721–1727
Succeeded by
Extinct
Political offices
Preceded by
Sir Robert Raymond
Solicitor-General
1714–1715
Succeeded by
John Fortescue Aland
Preceded by
Sir Edward Northey
Attorney-General
1718–1720
Succeeded by
Sir Robert Raymond
Preceded by
The Earl of Scarbrough
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1718–1727
Succeeded by
The Duke of Rutland


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