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 Mary Fanny Blunt.
His father was the eldest natural son and adopted heir of George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, and had succeeded to the Egremont estates on the death of his cousin the fourth Earl of Egremont in 1845.
George Wyndham was his nephew.
Wyndham was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and after leaving university joined the 1st Life Guards from which he retired with the rank of captain.
He was elected to the House of Commons for West Sussex in 1854, a seat he held until he succeeded his father as second Baron in 1869 and entered the House of Lords.
He was a Justice of the peace( JP) and a Deputy Lieutenant( DL) for Sussex, and vice- chairman and alderman of the Western Division of the Sussex County Council.
Lord Leconfield married Lady Constance Primrose, daughter of Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, and sister of Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, in 1867.
They had six sons and three daughters.
His eldest son, Hon. George O′Bryen Wyndham died before his father in 1895.
One of his sons, the Hon. William Reginald Wyndham, was killed on the Western Front in 1914 and is buried at Zillebeke Churchyard Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in Belgium.
Lord Leconfield died at his town- residence in Chesterfield- gardens on 6 January 1901, aged 70, and was succeeded in the barony by his second but eldest surviving son Charles.
Lady Leconfield died in 1939.
His daughter Maud Evelyn Wyndham was the mother of Henry Vincent Yorke, better known as the novelist Henry Green.
Elizabeth Ilive
Elizabeth Ilive (or Iliffe; c.1769 – 30 December 1822) was an English polymath.
She was the mistress and later wife of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont.
She was the mother of eight of his children.
Elizabeth Ilive came from Oxford and her father may have been a printer and/or a master at Westminster School.
She became Wyndham's mistress in 1785.
They were married in 1801, but only one of their children, a daughter who died in infancy in 1803, was born in wedlock.
Soon afterwards, the couple separated.
The children born to the couple prior to their marriage were:
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A renowned character actor, he also wrote for the stage, including material for Broadway revues, in which he also appeared.
He was the stepfather of film director Anthony Harvey.
Héctor Barrantes
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John Wyndham, 1st Baron Egremont
John Edward Reginald Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield, 1st Baron Egremont MBE( 5 June 1920 – 6 June 1972) was a British peer, art collector and author.
Hugh Wyndham, 4th Baron Leconfield
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.
George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield
George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield (5 June 1787 – 18 March 1869), was a British soldier and peer.
A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham
, he was the eldest natural son of George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, and Elizabeth Ilive.
His parents were married in 1801 but had no sons after their marriage.
George Wyndham entered the Royal Navy in 1799 as a midshipman in HMS "Amelia".
In 1802 he transferred to the Army as a Cornet in the 5th Dragoon Guards, promoted in 1803 to Lieutenant in the 3rd Dragoon Guards.
In 1805 he was a Captain in the 72nd Highlanders and ADC to Sir Eyre Coote who was Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.
In 1807 he was DAAG to Earl Cathcart at the Bombardment of Copenhagen; in 1809, as Captain in the 1st Foot Guards, he took part in the Walcheren Expedition; in 1811 he was a Major in the 78th Regiment and the 12th Light Dragoons; and in 1812 he was Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 20th Light Dragoons at the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo.
The earldom of Egremont became extinct on the death of the 4th Earl of Egremont in 1845 and this George Wyndham was adopted as the heir to the substantial Egremont estates, including Petworth House in Sussex.
In 1859 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Leconfield, of Leconfield in the East Riding of the County of York.
During the Great Irish Famine, Col. George Wyndham was often in residence in his County Clare estate near Ennis where he assisted tenants who wanted to emigrate to Canada.
This was a continuation of his father's improving policies in Sussex.
In late 1849 and early 1850, a series of seven anonymous essays and illustrations concerning the famine appeared in the Illustrated London News under the title "Condition of Ireland:
Illustrations of the New Poor Law.
" Here the narrator (likely the journalist and philanthropist Sidney Godolphin Osborne) writes of Col. Wyndham that "Colonel Windham . . .
is not tired of his fellow-creatures, and does not seek to exterminate them.
Not a roofless house did I see here.
"
His property was a "little oasis of humanity in the desert of misery."
George Wyndham married Mary Fanny Blunt, daughter of Reverend William Blunt, in 1815.
He died in March 1869, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest surviving son Henry.
His third son, the Hon.
Percy Scawen Wyndham, was the father of the politician and man of letters George Wyndham.
His daughter, Hon.
Caroline Sophia Wyndham (b. 12 Jul 1829, d. 19 Mar 1852) married Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote on 13 March 1851 at Petworth, Sussex.
She died giving birth and is buried with her still-born child in the family vault at Bartons Lane Cemetery, Petworth, West Sussex.
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Jerrold Wexler
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Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield
Charles Henry Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield( 17 February 1872 – 16 April 1952) was a British peer, army officer and political figure.
He succeeded his father as third Baron Leconfield in 1901.

Question: Who is George Wyndham, 1St Baron Leconfield's father?
Answer: George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont