Piers Legh

Sir Piers Walter Legh (12 December 1890 – 16 October 1955) was a British Army officer and a senior member of the Royal Household.

Second son of the 2nd Baron Newton and Evelyn Caroline Bromley Davenport, Legh was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst before being commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.

He served as a Military Secretary during the First World War,[1] being mentioned in despatches.

He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1948.

On 15 November 1920, he married Sarah Polk Shaughnessy (d. 1955, née Bradford), the widow of Capt.