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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 Petworth House in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Sa ...

, in Sussex. A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, he was the fourth (but third surviving) son of

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 Constance Evelyn Primrose, daughter of Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny. His grandfather, the first Baron Leconfield, was the adopted heir of

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, from whom the family derived their considerable wealth. Hugh was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's 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. 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, Edward Wyndham.

Published works

* as The Hon. H.A. Wyndham (1933
''Native Education : Ceylon, Java, Formosa, the Philippines, French Indo-China, and British Malaya''
(London: Milford). ''Problems of Imperial Trusteeship'' series. *. ''Problems of Imperial Trusteeship'' series. * ''Problems of Imperial Trusteeship'' series. * as The Hon. H.A. Wyndham (1939
''A Family History, 1410-1688 : The Wyndhams of Norfolk and Somerset''
(London: Oxford). * * *

References

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English non-fiction writers Alumni of New College, Oxford People educated at Eton College English male non-fiction writers