Constituency Dates
Great Bedwyn 1727 – 26 Mar. 1729
Family and Education
b. ?1704, 1st s. of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth; bro. of Hon. Edward and Henry Legge. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 22 Jan. 1720, aged 15. m. 22 Mar. 1722,1Hist. Reg. 1722, chron. 18; HMC Dartmouth, v. 326. Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Arthur Kaye, M.P., 3rd Bt., of Woodsome, Yorks., 2s. 2da.
biography text

Lord Lewisham was returned as a Tory for Great Bedwyn on the Bruce interest2Ld. Ailesbury to Jas. Bruce, 6 Sept. 1727, Savernake mss. but was unseated on petition. He died v.p. of smallpox 29 Sept. 1732.

Author
R.S.L.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. Hist. Reg. 1722, chron. 18; HMC Dartmouth, v. 326.
  • 2. Ld. Ailesbury to Jas. Bruce, 6 Sept. 1727, Savernake mss.