Henry Legge (courtier)

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

Legge was the second son of William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, and his wife Augusta, and was therefore entitled to the style "The Honourable". He was educated at Eton College and commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1872. He retired from the Army in 1899.

He served as an equerry 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 Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (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 Legge (1889–1914; he changed his last name to Legge-Bourke in 1911).

Victoria Alexandrina Stella Legge married Major Richard Gerard Wellesley Williams-Bulkeley (1887–1918), son of Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Bt., and Lady Magdalen Yorke, in 1909. Major Williams-Bulkeley died in March 1918 from wounds received in action in World War I. They had one daughter and two sons. The elder son, born in 1911, became the 13th Baronet.

Nigel Walter Legge-Bourke married Lady Victoria Alexandrina Wynn-Carington (1892–1966), daughter of Robert Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, and the Hon. Cecilia Margaret Harbord, 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 Tiggy and Eleanor Legge-Bourke.

References

• Obituary, The Times, 21 June 1924.