Peter Legh (c.1622/23[1] – 2 February 1642) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and his death in 1642.
Legh of Lyme Hall, Cheshire, was the grandson of Sir Peter Legh, MP for Wigan in 1586 and 1589.
His father, Piers,[2] died while he was a child and he succeeded to his grandfather's estates on 17 February 1636.
[3] He was sent to a grammar school at Amersham, Buckinghamshire under Dr Robert Challenor and then to Oriel College, Oxford,[4] which he entered on 25 January 1638/39 aged sixteen.
[5] On 27 January 1642 he attended a play and after a mistaken piece of horseplay was injured in a duel by Valentine Browne, a student of Gray's Inn and nephew of Lord Herbert of Cherbury,[4] and died six days later[6] at a lodging in Acton, Middlesex.