Heneage Legge 1704-1759
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Heneage LEGGE 1704-1759
Biographical Note
Second son of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1723, and became a barrister in 1729 (bencher, 1740); he became High Steward of Lichfield in 1734 and a judge in the court of the Exchequer in 1747.
Books
Legge used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 17971). The extent and disposition of his library is not known; in his brief will, he left all his goods and property to his wife Catherine, who died soon after him.
Sources
- Will of Heneage Legge, the National Archives PROB 11/849/386.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.
- Rigg, J. M., and Anne Pimlott Baker. "Legge, Heneage (1704–1759), judge." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.