Eleanor Legge-Bourke

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Eleanor Jean Maria Legge-Bourke (born 1 August 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an English public relations executive.

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Background

Half English and half Portuguese, Eleanor Legge-Bourke is the daughter of Heneage Legge-Bourke and Maria Clara, daughter of Vasco de Sá-Carneiro, of Lisbon, Portugal. [1]

Her father, Heneage Legge-Bourke, is senior director, financial engineering, with the French bank Natixis (and before that with its predecessor IXIS Corporate Investment Bank), specializing in property and renewable energy finance. [2] He was a Page of Honour to HM the Queen in 1963–1964. Her grandfather, Sir Harry Legge-Bourke (1914–1973), was member of parliament for the Isle of Ely from 1945 until 1973 and was chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers. [3]

Career

She took part of a French reality television show, in 2003: Nice People.

Legge-Bourke's main career is in public relations, and has taken her as far afield as Kazakhstan. [4] [5]

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References

  1. Mosley, C. (ed.), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 1, p. 1039.
  2. Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation Geneva, 29 June 2005 at unece.org (accessed 7 February 2008).
  3. LEGGE-BOURKE, Sir Edward Alexander Henry in Who Was Who 1971–1980 (London, A. & C. Black, 1989 reprint: ISBN   0-7136-3227-5).
  4. Eleanor Legge-Bourke, Kazakhstan PR/reporter at naymz.com (accessed 7 February 2008).
  5. Major league energy exporter blazes new economy trails at universalnews-us.com (accessed 7 February 2008).