Sir Charles Legard | |
Honorific-Suffix: | Bt |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Scarborough |
Term Start: | 5 February 1874 |
Term End: | 3 April 1880 |
Alongside: | Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone |
Predecessor: | Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone John Dent |
Successor: | Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone William Sproston Caine |
Birth Date: | 2 April 1846 |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Conservative |
Parents: | Thomas Digby Legard Francis Duncombe |
Sir Charles Legard, 11th Baronet (2 April 1846 – 6 December 1901) was a Conservative Party politician.
Harris was elected MP for Scarborough in 1874, but was defeated at the next election in 1880.[1]
Legard become the 11th Baronet of Ganton on 12 April 1866, succeeding his brother Darcy Willoughby Legard. On his death in 1901, Algernon Willoughby Legard inherited the title.[2]
During his life, he was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.[2]
Escutcheon: | Argent on a bend between six mullets pierced Gules a cross patee Or. |
Crest: | A greyhound passant Or collared Sable studded Argent. |
Motto: | Per Crucem Ad Stellas [3] |