LEIGH, ---; b.; in school lists 1656 (name spelled Ley in second, third and fourth quarters).
LEHEUP, HENRY, only son of Michael Leheup, London, Secretary to Lord Chancellor, and his second wife Anne Magdalen Piercy de Cambes, St. Marylebone, Middlesex; bapt. St. Mary, St. Marylebone Road 25 Jun 1740 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 15) 1755; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 30 Jan 1759, retd. 23 Dec 1761; Trinity Hall, Cambridge; LLB 1769; ordained; Rector of Hersett and Pakenham, Suffolk, from 1776; d. unm. Feb 1778.
LEGH, PETER, brother of Fleetwood Legh (qv); b. 6 Jan 1707/8; adm. Oct 1721; KS 1724; left 1727; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 7 Oct 1727, matr. 1727; inherited estates of his uncle Peter Legh at Lyme, Cheshire, and Newton, Lancs., 1744; MP Newton 15 Dec 1743-74; m. 20 Dec 1737 Martha, dau. of Thomas Benett, Salthrop, Wilts.; d. 20 May 1792.
LEGH, FLEETWOOD, eldest son of Thomas Legh MP, Holton Moss, Lancs., and Elizabeth, only dau. of Thomas Fleetwood, Bank, Lancs.; b. 11 Jan 1701/2; in under school list 1715; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 25 May 1721; of Bank, Lancs.; m. 24 Nov 1723 Meriel, only dau. of Sir Francis Leicester, Bart., MP; d. 21 Jan 1725/6.
LEGGET, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715-8.
LEGGE, WILLIAM, brother of George Augustus Legge (qv); b. 29 Jul 1802; adm. Mich. 1814; Min. Can. 1816; KS (Capt. ) 1817; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1821, matr. 2 Jun 1821, Westminster Student; BA 1825; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1825, priest (Hereford) 1826; Rector of Ashtead, Surrey, from 27 Sep 1826; d. 6 Nov 1872.
LEGGE, WILLIAM, 1st EARL OF DARTMOUTH, only son of George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth (qv); b. 14 Oct 1672; at school under Busby; at the School when Bishop Sprat read the Declaration of Indulgence in the Abbey 20 May 1688 (Burnet, History of his own Time, 1840, i, 468, note); King’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 1688, matr. 1688; MA 1689; succ. father as 2nd Baron Dartmouth 25 Oct 1691; a Commissioner of Trade and Foreign Plantations 14 Jun 1702 – Jul 1710; Privy Councillor 18 Jun 1702-14; Secretary of State, Southern Department 15 Jun 1710 – Aug 1713; created Earl of Dartmouth 5 Sep 1711; Lord Keeper of Privy Seal Aug 1713 – Sep 1714; a moderate Tory, of good ability and high character, and a staunch supporter of the Hanoverian succession; m. Jul 1700 Lady Anne Finch, third dau. of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford (qv); d. 15 Dec 1750. DNB.
LEGGE, WILLIAM. 2ND EARL OF DARTMOUTH, younger son of George Legge, Viscount Lewisham MP, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Arthur Kaye, Bart., MP; grandson of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (qv); b. 20 Jun 1731; adm. Mar 1741/2 (Morel's); left 1748; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jun 1749; MA 21 Mar 1750/1; DCL 28 Apr 1756; succ. grandfather as 2nd Earl of Dartmouth 15 Dec 1750; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1752-4; took seat, House of Lords 31 May 1754; President, Board of Trade and Foreign Plantations 19 Jul 1765 – Jul 1766, 31 Aug 1772 – Nov 1775; Privy Councillor 26 Jul 1775; Secretary of State for the Colonies 27 Aug 1772 – Nov 1775; Lord Privy Seal 4 Nov 1775 – Mar 1782; Lord Steward of the Household 11 Apr – Dec 1783; High Steward, Oxford Univ., from 1786; FRS 7 Nov 1754; FSA 1754; DL Yorkshire West Riding 1757; Busby Trustee 10 Apr 1766; an amiable and pious man, but without any obvious administrative capacity; known as the “Psalm-singer”, and referred to by his schoolfellow William Cowper (qv) as “one who wears a coronet and prays”; m. 11 Jul 1755 Frances Catherine, only dau. of Sir Charles Gounter Nicoll (qv); d. 15 Jul 1801. DNB.