Legge-Bourke may refer to: * Sir Henry Legge-Bourke MP (1914–1973) British Conservative politician *

Shân Legge-Bourke Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke (née Bailey; born 10 September 1943) is a Welsh landowner who served as the second Lord Lieutenant of Powys. The only child of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, Legge-Bourke inherited the Glanusk Pa ...

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(born 1943),

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landowner and

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, only child of

Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk Wilfred Russell Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk (27 June 1891 – 12 January 1948), was a British peer and soldier. Glanusk was the son of Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, and succeeded his father as third Baron in 1928. He achieved the rank of colo ...

Tiggy Legge-Bourke Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Pettifer (née Legge-Bourke; born 1 April 1965) is a British former nanny and companion to Prince William and Prince Harry. She was a personal assistant to Charles III (then Prince of Wales) from 1993 to 1999. She has us ...

MVO (born 1965), former

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*Eleanor Legge-Bourke (born 1980), PR executive and TV personality, a contestant in the 2003 series of ''Nice People'' (the French version of ''

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'') The family name originated with the adoption by Lt. Nigel Walter Henry Legge, of the Coldstream Guards (whose father, Hon. Sir Henry Charles Legge, K.C.V.O., descended from the

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), of the additional surname of 'Bourke', by Royal Licence, 26 April 1911, on succeeding to the estate of the Hon. Henry Lorton Bourke, of Hayes,

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, a descendant of the

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.Burke's Irish Family Records, 1912, pg 64, Legge-Bourke of Hayes pedigree Henry Lorton Bourke and Henry Charles Legge's wives were both daughters of Gustavus William Lambart (his eldest son was created a

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); when Bourke and his wife died without issue, his estate was inherited by his nephew.

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