The Right Reverend The Honourable

The Honourable

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 Augustus Legge DD

Doctor of Divinity

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 (28 November 1839 – 15 March 1913), was Bishop of Lichfield

Bishop of Lichfield

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 from 1891 until 1913.

Biography

Legge was the third son of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth

William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth

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, by his second wife the Honourable Frances, daughter of Reverend George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington. William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth

William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth

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, was his half-brother and Colonel Heneage Legge his full brother. He was educated at Eton

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

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. Ordained in 1864, he was Domestic Chaplain

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 to the Bishop of Rochester

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 then Vicar

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 of St Bartholomew’s, Sydenham

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  and after that Rural Dean

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 of Lewisham

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 before his elevation to the Episcopate in 1891.

Legge married Fanny Louisa, daughter of William Bruce Stopford Sackville, in 1877. They had several children. Fanny died in December 1911. Legge survived her by two years and died in March 1913, aged 73.