Warham St Leger (died 1600)
English army officer
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Warham St Leger was an English army officer.
St Leger was from Mollingborne.[1]
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.[2][3][4]
St Leger was the governor of Leix/Laois.[1]
He died on 1 March [N.S. 11 March] 1600,[5] near Cork, from injuries sustained 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.[6][7][8]
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".[9]
He is not to be confused with his uncle, also named Warham St Leger (c. 1525–1597).[10]
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