Henry Wyndham (1790
Henry Wyndham may refer to: * Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736–1819), British politician and topographer * Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield (1830–1901), British peer *Henry Wyndham (British Army officer) General (United Kingdom), General Sir Henry Wyndham Order of the Bath, KCB (12 May 1790 – 3 August 1860) was a British Army General (United Kingdom), General and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliam ...

Henry Penruddocke Wyndham
Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736–1819) MP JP FSA FRS, was a British Whig Member of Parliament, topographer and author. Background Wyndham was born on 4 June 1736, the eldest surviving son of Henry Wyndham of St Edmund's College, Salisbury, and his wife Arundel Penruddocke, daughter of Thomas Penruddocke of Compton Chamberlayne. Colonel Wadham Wyndham was his younger brother and the distinguished judge Sir Wadham Wyndham was his great-great-grandfather. He was educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxford, and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 6 February 1777 and a fellow of the Royal Society on 9 January 1783. Politics The Wyndhams of the College held great influence in Salisbury, and Wyndham was elected a freeman of the city on 15 March 1761, was Mayor of Salisbury in 1770–1, and High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1772. In 1794 he commanded a troop of cavalry raised in Salisbury. In 1795 he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Wil ...
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Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield
Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield, (31 July 1830 – 6 January 1901) was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament. A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, Leconfield was the eldest son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and Mary Fanny Blunt. His father was the eldest natural son and adopted heir of George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, and had succeeded to the Egremont estates on the death of his cousin the fourth Earl of Egremont in 1845. George Wyndham was his nephew. Wyndham was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and after leaving university joined the 1st Life Guards, from which he retired with the rank of captain. He was elected to the House of Commons for West Sussex in 1854, a seat he held until he succeeded his father as second Baron in 1869 and entered the House of Lords. He was a justice of the peace (JP) and a deputy lieutenant (DL) for Sussex, and vice-chairman and alderman of the Western Division of the Sussex County Coun ...
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