John Wyndham, 1st Baron Egremont

John Edward Reginald Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield, 1st Baron Egremont MBE (5 June 1920 – 6 June 1972) was a British hereditary peer, art collector and author.

[2] Lord Leconfield married his second cousin once removed, Pamela Wyndham-Quin (29 April 1925 – 4 November 2013), daughter of the Hon Valentine Wyndham-Quin and great-granddaughter of the Hon Blanche Julia Wyndham, (daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield), in 1947.

[3] They had two sons and a daughter:[4] In 1952, he inherited significant property from his uncle, Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield.

He and his bride moved into the magnificent Petworth House in West Sussex.

[3] He was succeeded in the baronies by his eldest son Max who wrote the entry on him for the Dictionary of National Biography and dedicated his War Diaries (1984) to him.

Wyndham in 1947
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