Hugh Wyndham, 4th Baron Leconfield

Arms of Wyndham, Baron Leconfield and Egremont: Azure, a chevron between three lion's heads erased or a bordure wavy of the last. These are the arms of Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, differenced by a bordure wavy, for the illegitimacy of the 1st Baron Leconfield. Hugh Archibald Wyndham, 4th Baron Leconfield (4 October 1877 – 6 July 1963), was a British peer, politician and author. He succeeded his elder brother as fourth Baron Leconfield in 1952. He was the historian of the Wyndham family.

Biography Wyndham was born at the family estate, Petworth House, in Sussex. A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, he was the fourth (but third surviving) son of Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield, and Constance Evelyn Primrose, daughter of Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny. His grandfather, George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, was the eldest illegitimate son and heir of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, from whom the family derived their considerable wealth. He died at the London Clinic in 1963, 11 years after inheriting the title.

Like his two elder brothers, he had no children, and the title passed to his younger brother Edward.

Published works as The Hon. H. A. Wyndham (1933) Native Education : Ceylon, Java, Formosa, the Philippines, French Indo-China, and British Malaya (London: Milford). Problems of Imperial Trusteeship series. . Problems of Imperial Trusteeship series. Problems of Imperial Trusteeship series. as The Hon. H. A. Wyndham (1939) A Family History, 1410-1688 : The Wyndhams of Norfolk and Somerset (London: Oxford).