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Shân Legge-Bourke

Shân Legge-Bourke

British landowner


Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke DCVO (née Bailey; born 10 September 1943) is a Welsh landowner who served as the second Lord Lieutenant of Powys.

The only child of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, Legge-Bourke inherited the Glanusk Park estate of some 18,000 acres on his death in 1948. In 1964 she married Captain William Legge-Bourke[1] (1939–2009; son of Major Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, a Conservative MP for the Isle of Ely), and they have three children:

In 1998, Legge-Bourke was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Powys.[2] In 2006 she was the subject of a BBC Wales series entitled The Lady of Glanusk.[3]

Appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 1988,[4] in the 2015 New Year Honours Legge-Bourke was promoted to Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO).[5]

She was appointed an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess Royal in January 2024.[6]


References

  1. "William Legge-Bourke dies aged 69". Wales Online. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. "No. 55227". The London Gazette. 17 August 1998. p. 8943.
  3. "No. 51365". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1988. p. 4.
  4. "No. 61092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2014. p. N4.
  5. Appendix to the Court Circular, 31 January 2024
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