Colonel Sir Henry Charles Legge (4 November 1852 – 20 June 1924) was a British soldier and

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. Legge was the second son of

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, and his wife Augusta (née Lady Augusta Finch), and was therefore entitled to the style "The Honourable". He was educated at

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and commissioned into the

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in 1872. He retired from the Army in 1899. He served as an

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in the Royal Household from 1893 to 1915, when he became Paymaster to the King's Household and an extra equerry to the king. He retired in 1920. He was appointed

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(KCVO) in 1910 and was promoted to Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) in the 1920 Birthday Honours.

Family

Legge married Amy Gwendoline Lambart (1852–1927) in 1884. They had two children, Victoria Alexandrina Stella Legge (1885–1965) and Nigel Walter Henry Legge (1889–1914), who legally changed his name to Nigel Walter Legge-Bourke by Royal Licence on 26 April 1911.Lieutenant Nigel Walter Legge-Bourke #38726, ''thepeerage.com''
/ref> Victoria (Vita) Alexandrina Stella Legge married Major Richard Gerard Wellesley Williams-Bulkeley (1887–1918), son of Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet, in 1909. He died in March 1918 from wounds received in action in World War I. They had one daughter and two sons. The elder son, Richard Harry David Williams-Bulkeley (1911–1992), succeeded his grandfather as the 13th Baronet. The younger son, David, died in South Africa in 1937, aged 21, in mysterious circumstances. The daughter, Sylvia, married Eustace Clearey. In 1921, Vita married Roland Frank Holdway Norman (died 1944). They had a son, Robert Norman, who was educated at Eton and killed in action in 1944. Nigel Walter Legge-Bourke married Lady Victoria Alexandrina Wynn-Carington (1892–1966), daughter of Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, in 1913. He served as a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and was killed in action in World War I in October 1914. Their son was Sir Harry Legge-Bourke (1914–1973), whose granddaughters are cousins

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and Eleanor Legge-Bourke.

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