Hugh Wyndham, 4th Baron Leconfield
Baron Leconfield | |
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4th Baron Leconfield | |
In office 1952–1963 | |
Preceded by | Charles Wyndham |
Succeeded by | |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Petworth, Sussex, England | 4 October 1877
Died | 6 July 1963 London | (aged 85)
Spouse(s) | Maud Lyttelton
(m. 1908; died 1953) |
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Hugh Archibald Wyndham, 4th Baron Leconfield (4 October 1877 – 6 July 1963) was a British peer, politician and author. He succeeded his elder brother as fourth Baron Leconfield in 1952. He was the historian of the Wyndham family.
Biography[]
Wyndham was born at the family estate, Petworth House, in Sussex. A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, he was the fourth (but third surviving) son of Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield, and Constance Evelyn Primrose, daughter of Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny. His grandfather, the first Baron Leconfield, was the adopted heir of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, from whom the family derived their considerable wealth.[1]
Hugh was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford.
In 1908, he married Maud Mary Lyttelton, daughter of Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham. She died in 1953, one year after he inherited the family titles from his older brother.
He did not move to the family estate in Petworth but primarily resided at Wyndham House in London.[2] He died at the London Clinic in 1963, 11 years after inheriting the title.
Like his two elder brothers, Hugh had no children, and the title passed to his younger brother, .
Published works[]
- as Lord Leconfield (1956). Sutton And Duncton Manors. Oxford University Press. ASIN B002M5TBJC.
- as Lord Leconfield (1954). Petworth Manor in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press. ASIN B000XY2IEY.
- as The Hon. H.A. Wyndham (1950). A Family History, 1688-1837. Oxford University Press. ASIN B000XY2IEY.
- A Family History, The Wyndhams of Norfolk and Somerset, 1939.
- A Family History, The Wyndhams of Somerset, Sussex and Wiltshire, 1950.
- as The Hon. H.A. Wyndham (1937). The Atlantic and Emancipation: Problems of Imperial Trusteeship. Oxford University Press. ASIN B000H2FNPS.
- as The Hon. H.A. Wyndham (1935). The Atlantic and Slavery. Oxford University Press. ASIN B001U4RDIM.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Lord Leconfield". The Times. 8 July 1963. p. 12.
- ^ "No. 43058". The London Gazette. 19 July 1963. p. 6182.
- 1877 births
- 1963 deaths
- Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Younger sons of barons
- Wyndham family
- English non-fiction writers
- Alumni of New College, Oxford
- People educated at Eton College
- English male non-fiction writers