Escutcheon: Argent on a bend between six mullets pierced Gules a cross patee Or; Crest: A greyhound passant Or collared Sable studded Argent.
Creation date
29 December 1660
Created by
Charles II
Peerage
Baronetage of England
First holder
John Legard
Present holder
Charles Legard
Heir apparent
None
Remainder to
the 1st baronet's heirs male
Status
Extant
Seat(s)
Scampston Hall, in Malton, North Yorkshire.
Motto
PER CRUCEM AD STELLAS[1]
Scampston Hall
The Legard Baronetcy, of Ganton in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of England. Since 1959, the family seat has been Scampston Hall, in Malton, North Yorkshire.
The baronetcy was created on 29 December 1660 for John Legard, a Royalist member of the Yorkshire gentry who fought in the Civil War and sat as the Member of Parliament for Scarborough after the Restoration.
The Legard Baronetcy, of Ganton in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of England. Since 1959, the family seat has been Scampston Hall, in...
cricketer Sir John Legard, 1st Baronet (1631–1678), English politician Jonathan Legard (born 1961), English broadcaster Percy Legard (1906–1980), English...
passed to the Legard (or Le Gard) family (see LegardBaronets) as Colonel Malone's daughter Mary had married Sir Thomas Legard, 14th Baronet in 1935. The...
Rifle Corps. He died in August 1939 in Pentire, Newquay, Cornwall. LegardBaronets Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook...
future baronets, and empowering them to offer a further inducement to applicants; and on the same day he granted to all Nova Scotia baronets the right...
Dickering. The church of St Nicholas was under the patronage of the local Legardbaronets. Population at the time was 278, which included the nearby settlement...
Robert Byerley of Goldsborough Hall. By 1779 the estate belonged to the LegardBaronets. Ravensworth was historically the largest settlement in the ancient...
Grimston at MyHeritage.com. Brooksbank at Thepeerage.com. Burke's, Legardbaronets. Frederick, p. 985. Spiers, Late Victorian Army, pp. 63–4. Dunlop,...
of Sir Richard Cholmley of Whitby and his first wife Susan Legard, daughter of John Legard, merchant of London and Ganton, Yorkshire. He was baptised...
United Kingdom List of baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain Leigh Rayment's list of baronets Baronetcies to which no Succession has been proved...
Navy officer and former Commander of the Allied Maritime Command Jonathan Legard (born 1961), journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Lord (born 1962), politician...
year old and in 1845 his mother married as her second husband James Anlaby Legard. Beaumont was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He sat as...
is the cover of a fairer mind than was first imagined" Sir Thomes Legard (11th Baronet of Ganton) wrote when the Filey and Bridlington branch was opened...
Arthington Double return - seated 3 May Scarborough Luke Robinson John Legard Thirsk Barrington Bourchier William Stanley Stanley sat for Liverpool -...
Cunningham Morris (1878–1972) Winifred was first married to Colonel Alfred Digby Legard (1878–1939) and then to Lieut.-Colonel George Henry Addison (1876–1964)...
William Singleton 1757 John Westbrook 1756 Noah Roul 1755 James Hickes 1754 Legard Sparham 1753 John Ranby 1751–52 Peter Sainthill 1749–50 Caesar Hawkins 1748...
Archibald Lees, Royal Army Medical Corps Maj. and Bt. Lt.-Col. Alfred Digby Legard, King's Royal Rifle Corps Capt. Henry Gordon Leith, Northumberland Yeomanry...
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