LEGGE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, eldest son of Hon. and Rev. Augustus George Legge FSA, Chancellor of Winchester, and Honora, eldest dau. of Walter Bagot (qv); grandson of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth (qv); b. 8 Jul 1801; adm. Mich. 1813; KS 1816; left 1820; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Apr 1820, Canoneer Student 1821-5; BA 1824; ordained priest 10 Jul 1825 (York); Vicar of Bray, Berks., from 27 Jun 1825; m. 23 Aug 1825 Frances Augusta, eldest dau. of William Atkins-Bowyer, Braywick, Berks.; d. 16 Jun 1826.

LEGGATT, PHILIP HENRY WALTER, son of Alfred Leggatt MRCS LSA, William Street, Lowndes Square, London, surgeon, and Mary Anne Eleanor Holroyd, Chapel Street, Belgrave Square, London; b. 29 Mar 1854; adm. 22 Jan 1869 (G); left Dec 1870; adm. solicitor Dec 1883; Roman Catholic convert 1905; m. 1884 Lily, authoress, dau. of Alfred Phillips, Charing Cross, London, Crown Jeweller; d. 24 Jul 1928.

LEGGATT, CHARLES ASHLEY SCOTT, brother of Philip Henry Walter Leggatt (qv); b. 12 Apr 1861; adm. 30 May 1872 (G); left Dec 1875; went to Rugby Sch.; Edinburgh Univ.; CM and MB 1885; MD 1888; a medical practitioner in London 1886-1926; author, Stalking Reminiscences, 1923; m. 17 Apr 1882 Helen Henrietta, youngest dau. of James William Anderson, Courtfield Gardens, South Kensington; d. 6 Mar 1935.

LEGARD, SIR DIGBY, BART., only son of Sir Thomas Legard, Bart., and Frances, dau. of John Digby MP, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts.; b. 27 Jan 1728/9; succ. father as 5th baronet 1735; adm. Feb 1742/3 (Burges'); left 1746; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 20 Oct 1746; Grand Tour (Italy) 1754; m. Aug 1755 Jane, third dau. of Gorge Cartwright, Ossington, Notts.; d. 4 Feb 1773.

LEFROY, WILLIAM CHAMBERS, only son of Thomas Edward Preston Lefroy, County Court Judge, and Anna Jemima, eldest dau. of Rev. Benjamin Lefroy, Rector of Ashe, Hampshire; b. 2 Feb 1849; adm. 20 Jan 1860 (G); QS 1864; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1868, matr. 30 May 1868; BA 1873; MA 1878; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1873, called to bar 26 Jan 1876; Assistant Commissioner, Endowed Schools Dept., Charity Commission 1883-98, Assistant Secretary 1899-1901; Chief Administrative Inspector, Secondary Schools, Board of Education 1901; Assistant Secretary 1903; retd. 1906; author, The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire, 1882; m. 9 Apr 1896 Clara Frances, dau. of Lieut. -Col. Charles Henry Peirse; d. 4 Dec 1915.

Lefroy, Anthony Langlois Massy, only son of the Rev. Anthony William Hamon Lefroy, Vicar of Appleshaw, Rants, by Sarah Jane, daughter of John Flower; b. Feb. 15, 1880; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 28, 1893 (H); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1898; matric. Michaelmas 1898; adm. a solicitor July 1906; practises in London; served in Great War I; Lieut. 4th Batt. Devon Regt. July 1, 1917; d. Jan. 2, 1945; unm.

LEFROY, ALFRED HENRY, fifth son of Thomas Paul Lefroy QC, County Court Judge (I), Bray, co. Wicklow, and Hon. Elizabeth Jane Sarah Anne Massy, fourth dau. of Hugh Massy, 3rd Baron Massy (I); b. 23 Feb 1856; adm. 24 Sep 1868 (G); left Dec 1873; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1876; LLB 1880; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 Jan 1878, called to bar 29 Jun 1881; South-Eastern Circuit; Deputy Clerk of the Peace, South London 1889-1904; m. 3 Jun 1891 Geraldine Mary, only dau. of Patrick Panton, Rodmersham Court, Kent; d. 10 Mar 1947.

Lees-Smith, Patrick Hastings, son of Rt Hon. Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith DSc PC MP, Pres. of the Board of Education, and Joyce, d. of Sidney Herbert Holman of Highgate; b. 4 Nov. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1935; RA 1940-5 (Capt.); Nat. Coal Board 1947-52; a carna­tion grower 1952-60; retd because of ill health; m. 6 June 1949 Elizabeth Isobel May, d. of John Wishart Kerr, med. practitioner, of Cambuslang, Glasgow; d. 18 June 1997.

Lees-Smith, (Edward) Christopher John, brother of Patrick Hastings Lees-Smith (qv); b. 5 Mar. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (A); left Mar. 1938; RA 1939-45 (Maj., DAQMG Middle East); Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1949, MA 1964; ord. deacon 1950, priest 1951 (Durham); Curate St Luke's, Pallion, Co. Durham, 1950-3; a Brother of the Society of St Francis, Hilfield, Dorset (known as Brother Edward), 1954-; Guardian of the Friary, Alnmouth, Northumberland, 1963-74; Chaplain of the Third Order of the Society of St Francis 1974-1991; d. 25 Feb. 2010.

Lees, Roger Arthur Graham, son of Rev. William Edward Lees, Minor Canon of Westminster, and Myra Dorothy, d. of Henry Slack, of Gullane, East Lothian; b. 2 June 1923; adm. Sept. 1938 (B); left July 1940; RAFVR in WW2 (Flt Lieut. ); adm. solicitor July 1948; sen. legal asst. Office of the Church Commissioners; m. 19 Aug. 1948 Mollie Georgina, d. of George Read, of Clacton­on-Sea, Essex; d. 12 Mar. 1998.