Augustus Legge (priest)

The Ven and Hon Augustus George Legge, MA (21 August 1773 – 21 August 1828) was Archdeacon of Winchester from 1814 until 1819.[1]

The fifth son of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth,[2] he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1790 and graduating B.A. in 1794, and taking his M.A. at Merton College in 1796.[3] A Chaplain to George III he held livings at Wonston, Crawley, Hampshire and North Waltham. In 1820 he declined an offer to be the Bishop of Killaloe.[4]

Notes

  1. "Archdeacons: Winchester". British History Online. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  2. "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Legge, Hon. Augustus George" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co via Wikisource.
  4. Dublin, March 29 The Times (London, England), Monday, Apr 03, 1820; pg. 2; Issue 10897
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Thomas de Grey, 4th Baron Walsingham
Archdeacon of Winchester
1814–1819
Succeeded by
Gilbert Heathcote


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