Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Burke's Extinct Peerage (London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831)
• Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by James Grahme William Harvey	Member of Parliament for Appleby with Edward Duncombe 1708–1710	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 1710–1717	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Pengelly Lord Percy Seymour
Preceded by William Dowdeswell Anthony Lechmere	Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury with William Dowdeswell 1717–1721	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