Introduction
Augustus Legge (28 November 1839 – 15 March 1913) was Bishop of Lichfield from 1891 until 1913.
Biography
Legge was the third son of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, by his second wife Frances, daughter of George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington. William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, was his half-brother and Colonel Heneage Legge his full brother. 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 St Bartholomew’s, Sydenhamand after that Rural Dean of Lewisham before his elevation to the Episcopate in 1891. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the London School Board, representing the Greenwich Division.
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.