Piers Legh

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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Piers "Joey" Walter Legh GCVO KCB CMG CIE OBE (12 December 1890–16 October 1955) was a British soldier and a member of the Royal Household.

The second son of the 2nd Baron Newton, Legh was educated at Eton and afterwards joined the Grenadier Guards. He was a military secretary during World War I and was mentioned in despatches. In 1919, he became an equerry to The Prince of Wales until 1936 and then to King George VI from 1937–46 (and also an extra equerry from 1946–55). In 1941, he became Master of the Household, a post he held until his retirement in 1953. On 15 November 1920, he married Sarah Polk Shaughnessy (d. 1955, née Bradford), the widow of Capt. Hon. Alfred Shaughnessy and they had one daughter, Diana Evelyn (b. 1924), who married the 4th Earl of Kimberley.

Preceded by Sir Smith Child

Master of the Household 1941–1953

Succeeded by Sir Mark Milbank