Biography of George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield 1787-1869

On 5th June 1787 George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield was born illegitimately to George O'Brien Wyndham 3rd Earl Egremont [aged 35] and Elizabeth Ilive Countess Egremont [aged 18].

In 1801 [his father] George O'Brien Wyndham 3rd Earl Egremont [aged 49] and [his mother] Elizabeth Ilive Countess Egremont [aged 32] were married. She by marriage Countess Egremont. He the son of [his grandfather] Charles Wyndham 2nd Earl Egremont and [his grandmother] Alicia Carpenter Countess Egremont.

1812. Thomas Phillips [aged 41]. Portrait of George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield [aged 24].

In 1815 George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield [aged 27] and Mary Fanny Blunt were married. He the illegitmate son of George O'Brien Wyndham 3rd Earl Egremont [aged 63] and Elizabeth Ilive Countess Egremont [aged 46].

On 18th October 1819 [his brother-in-law] George Fitz-Clarence 1st Earl Munster [aged 25] and [his illegitimate sister] Mary Wyndham Countess Munster [aged 27] were married. She the illegitmate daughter of [his father] George O'Brien Wyndham 3rd Earl Egremont [aged 67] and [his mother] Elizabeth Ilive Countess Egremont [aged 50]. He the illegitmate son of King William IV of the United Kingdom [aged 54] and Dorothea Bland aka "Mrs Jordan".

On 30th December 1822 [his mother] Elizabeth Ilive Countess Egremont [aged 53] died.

On 12th July 1829 [his daughter] Caroline Sophia Wyndham was born to George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield [aged 42] and Mary Fanny Blunt. She married 13th March 1851 her fifth cousin Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote.

On 31st July 1830 [his son] Henry Wyndham 2nd Baron Leconfield was born to George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield [aged 43] and Mary Fanny Blunt. He married 15th July 1867 Constance Evelyn Primrose Baroness Leconfield, daughter of Archibald John Primrose and Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope Duchess of Cleveland, and had issue.

On 30th January 1835 [his son] Percy Scawen Wyndham was born to George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield [aged 47] and Mary Fanny Blunt. He married before 3rd August 1862 Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbell, daughter of Guy Campbell 1st Baronet and Pamela Fitzgerald Lady Campbell, and had issue.

On 11th November 1837 [his father] George O'Brien Wyndham 3rd Earl Egremont [aged 85] died at Petworth House. His nephew George [aged 51] succeeded 4th Earl Egremont, 6th Baronet Wyndham of Orchard in Somerset. Jane Roberts Countess Egremont by marriage Countess Egremont. His left Petworth House to his illegitimate son George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield [aged 50].

On 3rd December 1842 [his illegitimate sister] Mary Wyndham Countess Munster [aged 50] died.

On 13th March 1851 [his son-in-law] Colonel Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote [aged 21] and [his daughter] Caroline Sophia Wyndham [aged 21] were married at Petworth. They were fifth cousins.

On 19th March 1852 [his daughter] Caroline Sophia Wyndham [aged 22] died in childbirth at Drove Westhampnett. She and the child, who died on the same day, were buried at Bartons Lane Cemetery Petworth.

In 1859 George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield [aged 71] was created 1st Baron Leconfield of Leconfield in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Before 3rd August 1862 [his son] Percy Scawen Wyndham [aged 27] and [his daughter-in-law] Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbell were married.

On 15th July 1867 [his son] Henry Wyndham 2nd Baron Leconfield [aged 36] and [his daughter-in-law] Constance Evelyn Primrose Baroness Leconfield [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Baroness Leconfield of Leconfield in the East Riding of Yorkshire. She the daughter of Archibald John Primrose and Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope Duchess of Cleveland [aged 48].

On 18th March 1869 George Wyndham 1st Baron Leconfield [aged 81] died. His son Henry [aged 38] succeeded 2nd Baron Leconfield of Leconfield in the East Riding of Yorkshire.