Sir Anthony St Leger, the Younger

Sir Anthony St Leger (the younger) (c.1535-1613) was an English-born judge in Ireland who held the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland.

family

There is some confusion about his parentage. It is often said that he was the third son of Sir Anthony St Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and his wife Agnes Warham. However, both Burke's Peerage,[1] and Francis Elrington Ball in his definitive study of the pre-Independence Irish judiciary,[2] state that he was the nephew, not the son, of the elder Sir Anthony, and that his parents were Sir Anthony's brother George St Leger and his wife Thomasine Heath.
St Leger married firstly Eleanor, daughter of Richard Markham of Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire; they had one daughter, Joan. Eleanor died in 1599. He married secondly as her fourth husband Mary, daughter of Francis Southwell of Wyndham Hall, Norfolk; her third husband had been the leading soldier Sir Conyers Clifford. They had two children, Anthony and Frances. Their son was knighted in 1627, and died in 1661. After Mary's death in 1603 he married Aphra Wotton, who outlived him by many years.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_St_Leger_(Master_of_the_Rolls)_
• 1. Mosley, ed. Burke's Peerage 107th Edition Delaware 2003 Vol.1 p.1160
• 2. Ball, Francis Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol. 1 p.225