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]
References
editCitations
edit- ^ Brewer & Bullen 1869, p. 324.
- ^ Falls 1997, pp. 245–246.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Brewer & Bullen 1869, p. 366.
- ^ Webb, Alfred (1878). "Hugh Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh". A Compendium of Irish Biography. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Pollard 1893, p. 330.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Brewer & Bullen 1869, p. 374.
- ^ Archbold, William Arthur Jobson; Pollard, Albert (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. pp. 167–168.
Sources
edit- Brewer, J. S.; Bullen, W., eds. (1869). Calendar of Carew Manuscripts in the Lambeth Library. Vol III: 1599-1600. (6 vols, 1867–73). London: Longman & Co., et al.
- Pollard, Albert (1893). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. pp. 329–330.
- Falls, Cyril (1997) [1950]. "Essex in Ireland". Elizabeth's Irish Wars. New York: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815604358.