Background and Education
Wyndham was the son of the Honourable Percy Wyndham, younger son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and he was a direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham. His mother was Madline, daughter of Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet, and Pamela, daughter of Irish revolutionary Lord Edward Fitzgerald, whom Wyndham greatly resembled physically. Wyndham was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
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