[3] He was the son of Richard Lechmere and matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1719.
[4] The same source suggests that Major Richard Lechmere, of Newbourne Hall, who was involved in Whig politics around 1714, was from this branch of the family, being another son of Thomas.
[7] In his early clerical career, Nicholas Lechmere was Rector of Warnford in Hampshire from 1733, jointly for two years with Easington, Oxfordshire.
[9] Nicholas Lechmere (1675–1727), son of Edmund Lechmere of Hanley Castle, had been one of the small group, with Hoadly and others, who had scrutinised Steele's 1713 Whig pamphlet The Crisis on the Hanoverian Succession before its publication.
[8][3] He died in 1770 and was buried in the north aisle of the nave of the cathedral.