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William Legge, the Second Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801), held a number of public offices, serving as a member of the House of Lords; the first president of the Board of Trade & Plantations; Secretary of State for the American Colonies; and as an appointee to the Privy Council, the private advisors to the Crown.
William Legge (MP for Portsmouth) (c.1650–c.1697), son of the above, British Member of Parliament for Portsmouth, 1685. William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (1672–1750), Lord Privy Seal. William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth (1731–1801), British statesman, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1772–1775. William Legge, 4th Earl of ...
William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (14 October 1672 – 15 December 1750), was Lord Privy Seal from 1713 to 1714. He was a Hanoverian Tory, supporting the Hanoverian succession following the death of Queen Anne .
15 de set. de 2021 · Abolition connections. ‘In October 1772, Thomas Woolridge, a British businessman and supporter of William Legge, the [2nd] Earl of Dartmouth, asked her [Phillis Wheatley] to write a poem for Legge, who had just been appointed secretary of state for the colonies. Entitled "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth," the poem reflects ...
William Legge, the Second Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801), held a number of public offices, serving as a member of the House of Lords; the first president of the Board of Trade & Plantations; Secretary of State for the American Colonies; and as an appointee to the Privy Council, the private advisors to the Crown. As a member of the Board of Trade, a kind of clearinghouse for colonial complaints ...
Był najstarszym synem George’a Legge’a, wicehrabiego Lewisham, i Elizabeth Kaye, córki sir Arthura Kaye’a, 3. baroneta. Po śmierci dziadka w 1750 r. odziedziczył tytuł 2. hrabiego Dartmouth i zasiadł w Izbie Lordów. Należał do grona dobroczyńców londyńskiego Foundling Hospital. Od 1755 r. był wiceprzewodniczącym tej instytucji.
William Cowper and John Newton are the most famous residents of Olney, but William Legge, the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, is probably the most significant non-resident figure in Olney history.. In 1755 he married Frances Nicholls daughter to Charles Gunter (or Gounter) Nicholls, who had been MP for Peterborough. The family fortunes had been founded ...
