Henry Legge (courtier)

Colonel Sir Henry Charles Legge

Legge was the second son of William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, and his wife Augusta (née Lady Augusta Finch), and was therefore entitled to the style "The Honourable".^[1] He was educated at Eton College.^[2]

Career

Legge was commissioned into the

Legge married Amy Gwendoline Lambart (1852–1927) in 1884. They had two children:[2]

• Victoria "Vita" Alexandrina Stella Legge (1885–1965), who married Major Richard Gerard Wellesley Williams-Bulkeley (1887–1918), son of Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet, in 1909.^[1] After his death, Vita married Roland Frank Holdway Norman in 1921.^[3]
• Nigel Walter Henry Legge (1889–1914), who legally changed his name to Nigel Walter Henry Legge-Bourke by Royal Licence on 26 April 1911; he married Lady Victoria Alexandrina Wynn-Carington (1892–1966), daughter of Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, in 1913. He was killed in action in World War I in October 1914.^[1]

Sir Henry died on 20 June 1924.^[2]

Descendants

Through his daughter Vita, he was a grandfather of three. His elder grandson, Richard Harry David Williams-Bulkeley, succeeded his paternal grandfather as the 13th Baronet. The younger grandson, David, died in South Africa in 1937, aged 21, in mysterious circumstances. The granddaughter, Sylvia, married Eustace Clearey. From Vita's second marriage, he had another grandson, Robert Norman, who was educated at Eton and was killed in action in 1944.^[3]

Through his son Nigel, he was a grandfather of Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, whose granddaughters are cousins Tiggy and Eleanor Legge-Bourke.^[3]

References

• Sir Harry Charles Legge (1852-1924), Army officer and royal courtier at the National Portrait Gallery, London