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Legge, William, 1672-1750
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1672-1750
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.