Background
Lechmere was the son of Sir Edmund Hungerford Lechmere, 2nd Baronet of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire and his wife Maria Clara Murray, daughter of Honorary
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Lechmere was the son of Sir Edmund Hungerford Lechmere, 2nd Baronet of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire and his wife Maria Clara Murray, daughter of Honorary
He was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford.
He was a pioneer of the Red Cross. Murray. In 1852 he inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father. In 1862 he was High Sheriff of Worcestershire.
He contested Tewkesbury again in 1874, without success, but in July 1876 he was elected at a by-election as Member of Parliament for Western Worcestershire.
After the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885, he was elected at the 1885 general election as Member of Parliament for Bewdley. He held the seat until the 1892 general election, when he was elected as Member of Parliament for Evesham.
He held that seat until his death. Lechmere gave an annual prize for history at the Oxford Military College in Cowley and Oxford Oxfordshire from 1876-1896.
They had travelled several times to Jerusalem and were involved in the establishment of The Street John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital.
Lechmere married Louisa Katherine Haigh (since 1837), only daughter and heiress of John or Joseph Haigh of Whitwell Hall at York, on 30 September 1858. Her father, the son of a wealthy textile merchant with origins in Golcar, was born at Spring Grove, Huddersfield in 1805. (See here for Haigh"s will).
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In March 1866 Lechmere was elected at a by-election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Tewkesbury, but when the borough"s representation was reduced to one seat at the 1868 general election, he was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate William Edwin Price.