Shân Legge-Bourke

Dame Elizabeth Shân Josephine Legge-Bourke DCVO (née Bailey; born 10 September 1943) is a Welsh landowner.

The only child of Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, Legge-Bourke inherited Glanusk Park upon his death in 1948. She married Capt. William Legge-Bourke (1939–2009; son of Maj. Sir Harry Legge-Bourke), a Conservative MP for the Isle of Ely, in 1964 and they have three children:

In 1998, Legge-Bourke was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Powys.[2] She was the subject of a BBC Wales series entitled The Lady of Glanusk in 2006.

A Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO),[3] she was promoted to Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the 2015 New Year Honours.[4]

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Preceded by
Mervyn Leigh Bourdillon
Lord Lieutenant of Powys
1998–present
Incumbent
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