Shân Legge-Bourke

The Honourable Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke DCVO (née Bailey; born 10 September 1943) is a Welsh landowner who served as the 2nd Lord Lieutenant of Powys.

The only child of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, Legge-Bourke inherited Glanusk Park upon his death in 1948. She married Capt. William Legge-Bourke[1] (1939–2009; son of Maj. Sir Harry Legge-Bourke), a Conservative MP for the Isle of Ely, in 1964 and they have three children:

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

Already Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO),[3] she was appointed Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the 2015 New Year Honours.[4]

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.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Mervyn Leigh Bourdillon
Lord Lieutenant of Powys
1998–2018
Succeeded by
Tia C Jones
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