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,

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, in Sussex. A direct descendant of

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, 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. Early life and education A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, Leconfield was the eldest surviving son of Geo ...

, and Constance Evelyn Primrose, daughter of

Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny (2 October 1809 – 23 January 1851), was a British Whig politician. Early life He was the eldest son and heir apparent of Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery (1783–1868), whom he predeceased, by his wife ...

. His grandfather,

George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield (5 June 1787 – 18 March 1869), was a British soldier and hereditary peer. Early life A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, he was born in 1787, the eldest natural son of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egr ...

, was the eldest illegitimate son and heir of

George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont Royal Society#Fellows, FRS (18 December 1751 – 11 November 1837) of Petworth House in Sussex and Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, was a British Peerage of Great Britain, peer, a major landowner and a ...

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

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and

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. In 1908, he married Maud Mary Lyttelton, daughter of

Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham Charles George Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham (27 October 1842 – 9 June 1922), known as The Lord Lyttelton from 1876 to 1889, was a British peer and politician from the Lyttelton family. He was a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Member of Parliament ...

. 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, he had no children, and the title passed to his younger brother

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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