Bishop of Lichfield Vanity Fair 1897-05-27

Augustus Legge (28 November 183915 March 1913) was Bishop of Lichfield from 1891 until 1913.

Family and education

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 Heneage Legge his full brother. Mosley, Charles (ed.). ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 1.'' (Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.) p. 924. He was educated at Eton and

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. He 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.

Career

Ordained in 1864, he served curacies at Handsworth, Staffordshire (1864–1866) — where his family owned land — and afterwards at

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(1866–1867). His brother (by then Earl of Dartmouth, and patron of the church) presented him to become Vicar of St Bartholomew's, Sydenham (1867–1879); he became additionally domestic chaplain to Anthony Thorold,

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, and an honorary canon of Rochester Cathedral (1877–1891); he succeeded his uncle (Henry Legge) as Vicar of St Mary's, Lewisham (1879–1891) — where his brother was lord of the manor; and served additionally as Rural Dean of Greenwich (1880–1886); and of Lewisham (1886–1891) before his appointment to the episcopate: his election to the See of Lichfield was confirmed at

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on 28 September and he was consecrated a bishop at

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on 29 September 1891, by

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. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the

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, representing the Greenwich Division.

References

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