Warham St Leger

Sir Warham St Leger PC (Ire) ( – 1597) was an English soldier, administrator, and politician, who sat in the Irish House of Commons in the Parliament of 1585–1586. Birth and origins Warham was probably born in 1525 in England, the second son of Sir Anthony St Leger and his wife, Agnes Warham. His father was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1540. His father's family was from Ulcombe, Kent. His mother was a daughter of Sir Hugh Warham, a brother of William Warham, archbishop of Canterbury. Early life His father disinherited his eldest brother, William, due to his dissolute lifestyle; the third brother, Anthony, would be made Master of the Rolls in Ireland in 1593. Warham served in Protector Somerset's invasion of Scotland in 1547 as he was a prisoner there until January 1550, when he was ransomed.