Augusta Legge, Countess of Dartmouth (18 February 1822 – 1 December 1900), born Lady Augusta Finch, was an English philanthropist.
Brought up in
Warwickshire, she was the daughter of
Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford
Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (24 April 1786 – 3 January 1859) was a British peer, the eldest son of Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford.
He was styled Lord Guernsey until he succeeded his father in 1812.
Aylesford married in 1821 Aug ...
, and his wife, the former Lady Augusta Sophia Greville,
daughter of
George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick.
She married
William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, on 9 June 1846.
[ They had two sons, William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth (1851–1936), and the Honourable Sir Henry Legge (1852–1924), and four daughters, who died unmarried.]Sandwell
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England. The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands conurbation. According to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, t ...
, when she and her husband moved to Patshull Hall, near Wolverhampton.[ Laetitia Frances Selwyn ran Sandwell School which was open to girls to train as domestic servants. By the time it closed in 1891 it had extended its range to governesses and even industrial jobs irrespective of gender.][A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part)]
british-history.ac.uk, Retrieved 13 March 2017.
She became a widow and she dedicated herself to good works including founding a local Mother's Union and a home for orphan boys.[ She crossbred chickens to create the Andalusian Bantam.
She died at Woodsome Hall near Huddersfield in 1900.][
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1822 births
1900 deaths
English philanthropists
English women philanthropists
People from Warwickshire
British countesses
Daughters of British earls
19th-century British philanthropists
19th-century women philanthropists