Warham St Leger (died 1600)

Not to be confused with his uncle, also an English army officer, Warham St Leger.

Warham St Leger was an English army officer.

St Leger served in Ireland during Lord Deputy Essex's failed campaign. He was one of six royalist witnesses present at a riverside conference with Irish confederates on 7 September 1599.[1][2][3]

He died on 1 March [N.S. 11 March] 1600,[4] near Cork, in a skirmish with Gaelic chieftain Hugh Maguire. St Leger shot Maguire as he approached, though Maguire thrust his lance into St Leger's skull before succumbing to his gunshot wound.[5][6][7]

On 31 March 1600, Thomas Denham wrote to Cecil that St Leger's widow "is now preparing herself for the Court, to be a suitor".[8]

He is not to be confused with his uncle, also named Warham St Leger (c. 1525–1597).[9]

  1. ^ Brewer & Bullen 1869, p. 324.
  2. ^ Falls 1997, pp. 245–246.
  3. ^ Hull, Eleanor (1931). "Essex in Ireland and the Ulster Campaign". A History of Ireland and Her People. Archived from the original on 8 September 2024.
  4. ^ Brewer & Bullen 1869, p. 366.
  5. ^ Webb, Alfred (1878). "Hugh Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh". A Compendium of Irish Biography. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  6. ^ Pollard 1893, p. 330.
  7. ^ Barry, Judy (October 2009). "Maguire, Hugh". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.005379.v1. Archived from the original on 18 April 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  8. ^ Brewer & Bullen 1869, p. 374.
  9. ^ Archbold, William Arthur Jobson; Pollard, Albert (1897). "St. Leger, Warham" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. pp. 167–168.