- Harry Legge-Bourke
Major Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke KBE (16 May 1914 –21 May 1973 ) was a British politician.Educated at
Eton College andRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst , Legge-Bourke was commissioned into theRoyal Horse Guards in 1934. He served there throughoutWorld War II , rising to the rank ofmajor . In 1941, he was liaison officer, GHQ, British Forces inGreece and served with the 7th Armoured Division atEl Alamein .Legge-Bourke was elected
member of Parliament for Isle of Ely in 1945 as a member of the Conservative Party. His gain from the Liberal James A. de Rothschild was the only Conservative gain of the election. Legge-Bourke was prominent as a chairman of the1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers. In 1960 he was invested as a KBE. As anEast Anglia n representative, he was particularly interested in land drainage and was vice-President of the Association of Drainage Authorities. A popular local MP, he was nevertheless infamous for never making a single speech in his twenty eight years in the Commons, though he did instruct Prime MinisterClement Attlee to "Change the bloody record" as he threw a coin at him — an incident which had him briefly debarred from the Commons.Legge-Bourke died in 1973 whilst still a Member of Parliament. The by-election to replace him was won by Liberal
Clement Freud .Legge-Bourke inherited a fraction of the
Lord Great Chamberlain ship ofEngland , succeeded by his son, William. His daughter-in-law (The Hon. Mrs Legge-Bourke,Lord Lieutenant of Powys ) was made alady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II. His granddaughter,Alexandra Legge-Bourke , known as "Tiggy," wasnanny to Princes William and Harry. Another granddaughter,Eleanor Legge-Bourke , is a television personality inFrance .
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