Background
Legge was the third son of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, by his second wife Frances, daughter of George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington.
Legge was the third son of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, by his second wife Frances, daughter of George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington.
Christ Church; Eton College.
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Ordained in 1864, he was Domestic Chaplain to Anthony Thorold, Bishop of Rochester then Vicar of Street Bartholomew’s, Sydenham and after that Rural Dean of Lewisham 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.
From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the London School Board, representing the Greenwich Division.
