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Line 1: {{Use dmy dates\|date=~~April~~December ~~2012~~2022}} {{Infobox officeholder \|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] Line 7: \|imagesize = \|smallimage = \|caption = \|office = [[Department for Education\|Minister of State for Education and Science]] Line 81: \|alma_mater = [[Eton College]] <br /> [[Christ Church, Oxford]] }} '''Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton''' (6 April 1915 – 16 June 1992),<ref>{{cite news \|author1=Patrick Cosgrave \|author-link1= \|title=Obituary: Lord Newton \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-newton-1533835.html \|url-access= \|access-date=15 August 2022 \|work=[[The Independent]] \|~~language~~location=London \|date=17 July 1992}}</ref> was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)\|Conservative]] politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s. Newton was the son of [[Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton]] and Helen Winifred Meysey-Thompson, daughter of [[Henry Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baron Knaresborough]]. His grandfather [[Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton]] was also a [[Conservative Party (UK)\|Conservative]] politician and served as [[Paymaster-General]] during the [[First World War]]. Newton was educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford]], and served in the [[Second World War]] as a Major in the [[Grenadier Guards]]. After the war Newton was a member of the [[Hampshire County Council]] from 1949 to 1952 and from 1954 to 1955. In 1951 he was elected [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)\|Member of Parliament]] for [[Petersfield (UK Parliament constituency)\|Petersfield]], and served in the [[Conservative Party (UK)\|Conservative]] administrations of [[Winston Churchill\|Churchill]], [[Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon\|Eden]] and [[Harold Macmillan\|Macmillan]] as [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury [[John Boyd-Carpenter]] from 1952 to 1953, as an Assistant Government Whip from 1953 to 1955, as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1955 to 1957, as [[Vice-Chamberlain of the Household]] from 1957 to 1959 and as [[Treasurer of the Household]] from 1959 to 1960. In 1960 Newton succeeded his father as 4th Baron Newton and took his seat in the [[British House of Lords\|House of Lords]], causing a [[by-election]] in [[Petersfield (UK Parliament constituency)\|Petersfield]] which was won by the Conservative candidate, [[Joan Quennell]]. He continued to serve under [[Harold Macmillan\|Macmillan]] and later [[Alec Douglas-Home\|Home]] as [[Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard]] and Assistant Chief Whip in the [[British House of Lords\|House of Lords]] from 1960 to 1962, as Joint [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health]] from 1962 to 1964 and as [[Minister of State]] for [[Department for Education\|Education and Science]] in 1964.

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