John Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 7th Baron Leconfield, 2nd Baron Egremont, generally known simply as Max Egremont, is a British biographer and novelist. Egremont is the eldest son of John Edward Reginald Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield and 1st Baron Egremont, and Pamela Wyndham-Quin, and succeeded his father in 1972. He is a direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham. He married Caroline Nelson, the garden designer, in 1978 and they have four children, three daughters and a son. He lives at the family seat of Petworth House in Sussex which his family gave to the National Trust in 1947. Egremont was educated at Eton College and studied modern history at Christ Church, Oxford. He worked for the American publishing firm Crowell Collier Macmillan and on the staff of U.S. Senator Hugh Scott in Washington. After his father's death in 1972, he moved to Petworth. He has written books about George Wyndham, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Arthur Balfour and Sir Edward Spears, as well as four novels, The Ladies' Man, Dear Shadows, Painted Lives and Second Spring. His The Cousins won the Yorkshire Post Award for the Best First Book of 1977. 

January 1st, 1948 in (Age 76)