Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield

Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield, JP, DL (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 surviving son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and Mary Fanny Blunt. His father was the eldest natural son and adopted heir of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont and succeeded to the Egremont estates on the death of his cousin, George Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont, in 1845. George Wyndham was his nephew.

Leconfield was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. After leaving university, he joined the 1st Life Guards, from which he retired with the rank of captain.^[1]

Leconfield 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.^[1]

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:^[2]

• Lieutenant Hon George O'Brien Wyndham (17 November 1868 - 13 January 1895)
• Hon Mary Caroline Wyndham (17 November 1870 - 21 January 1944), married General Sir Ivor Maxse KCB CVO DSO DL.
• Charles Henry Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield (17 February 1872 - 17 April 1952)
• Hon Maud Evelyn Wyndham (1 September 1874 - 22 July 1963), married Vincent Wodehouse Yorke and was the mother of Henry Vincent Yorke, better known as the novelist Henry Green.
• Lieutenant Hon William Reginald Wyndham (16 March 1876 - 6 November 1914), killed in action on the Western Front and is buried at Zillebeke Churchyard Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in Belgium.^[3]
• Hugh Archibald Wyndham, 4th Bacon Leconfield (4 October 1877 - 6 July 1963)
• Hon Margaret Blanche Wyndham (9 October 1879 - 26 February 1965)
• Edward Scawen Wyndham, 5th Baron Leconfield (30 April 1883 - 1967), father of John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield and 1st Baron Egremont.
• Brigadier General Hon Everard Humphrey Wyndham (4 December 1888 - 1970)

Lord Leconfield died at his town residence in Chesterfield Gardens, London on 6 January 1901 at the age of 70. He was succeeded in the barony by his second but eldest surviving son Charles.^[1] Lady Leconfield died in 1939.

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ^{[page needed]}
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.^{[unreliable source]}

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Wyndham