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William Legge, Lord Dartmouth. 20 June 1731 - 15 July 1801. William Legge, Lord Dartmouth, was born the younger son of Viscount Lewisham, and in 1750 succeeded his grandfather as Second Earl of Dartmouth. In 1754 he took up his seat in the House of Lords and was appointed President of the Board of Trade and Foreign Plantations in July 1765 ...
Dec 10, 2022 Share. The Underwriting Agencies Council ( UAC) has announced that its general manager, William Legge, will step down from his role at the end of the year. The UAC held a farewell ...
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 ...
William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth FCA (born 23 September 1949), styled Viscount Lewisham from 1962 to 1997, is a British politician and hereditary peer, usually known as William Dartmouth.
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.
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, 10.º Conde de Dartmouth (nascido em 23 de setembro de 1949) é o filho e herdeiro de Gerald Legge, 9.º Conde de Dartmouth e de sua primeira esposa, Raine McCorquodale (Condesa Spencer), uma filha da romancista Dame Barbara Cartland.
