Legard baronets

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 family has been long-established in North Yorkshire, in the region north-east of York and south of the North York Moors. It is particularly associated with Ganton and can trace a presence there to the 1500s: the baronetcy is identified with Ganton, and Sir John's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were also all from Ganton and were, incidentally, also all called John. Other associated places are concentrated around the eastern part of the old North Riding, along the Vale of Pickering and include Ryedale, Malton, past Ganton, to Scarborough. To the south of this area, there is some association with places in the old East Riding, such as Watton, and Anlaby now on the outskirts of Hull.

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