Baron Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton

Born on 18 March 1857 and died on 21 March 1942, he was a British diplomat and Conservative politician who became the 2nd Baron Newton. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and later served in government as Paymaster General during the First World War.

Alongside politics, he wrote about diplomacy and public affairs. The best-confirmed title connected with him is Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, published in two volumes and still listed in major public-domain and library catalogs.

That mix of insider experience and historical interest gives his writing a practical, well-informed character. Readers coming to him today are often finding not just an author, but a figure who moved between diplomacy, Parliament, and the literary record of British foreign policy.