Education
Eton College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Eton College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
He served alongside Jock Colville as a Page of Honour from 1926. Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Legge-Bourke was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards in 1934. He served there throughout the Second World War, rising to the rank of major.
In 1941, he was liaison officer, GHQ, British Forces in Greece and served with the 7th Armoured Division at El Alamein.
His gain from the Liberal James A. de Rothschild was one of the few Conservative gains of the election. Legge-Bourke was prominent as a chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers.
In 1960 he was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. As an East Anglian representative, he was particularly interested in land drainage and was vice-President of the Association of Drainage Authorities. A popular local Member of Parliament, he did instruct Prime Minister Clement Attlee to "Change the bloody record" as he threw a coin at him — an incident which had him briefly debarred from the Commons.
His daughter-in-law, the Honorary
Mrs Legge-Bourke, Lord Lieutenant of Powys, was made a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth World War II Another granddaughter, Eleanor Legge-Bourke, is a television personality in France.
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Legge-Bourke was elected member of Parliament for Isle of Ely in 1945 as a member of the Conservative Party.
Legge-Bourke died in 1973, aged 59, whilst still a Member of Parliament.