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August 1766</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham" title="Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham">The Marquess of Rockingham</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wills_Hill,_1st_Marquess_of_Downshire" title="Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire">The Earl of Hillsborough</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wills_Hill,_1st_Marquess_of_Downshire" title="Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire">The Earl of Hillsborough</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Colonies" title="Secretary of State for the Colonies">Secretary of State for the Colonies</a> and <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Board_of_Trade" title="President of the Board of Trade">First Lord of Trade</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />27 August 1772 – 10 November 1775</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">Lord North</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wills_Hill,_1st_Marquess_of_Downshire" title="Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire">The Earl of Hillsborough</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Germain,_1st_Viscount_Sackville" title="George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville">Lord George Germain</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">20 June 1731<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtstart bday">1731-06-20</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">15 July 1801<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend dday deathdate">1801-07-16</span>)</span> (aged 70)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">British</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Frances Nicoll (d. 1805)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Signature_of_William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth_(1731%E2%80%931801).png" class="mw-file-description" title="William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Signature_of_William_Legge%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth_%281731%E2%80%931801%29.png/128px-Signature_of_William_Legge%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth_%281731%E2%80%931801%29.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Signature_of_William_Legge%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth_%281731%E2%80%931801%29.png/192px-Signature_of_William_Legge%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth_%281731%E2%80%931801%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Signature_of_William_Legge%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth_%281731%E2%80%931801%29.png 2x" data-file-width="243" data-file-height="89" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth</b>, <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Most_Honourable_Privy_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council">PC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">FRS</a> (20 June 1731 – 15 July 1801), styled as <b>Viscount Lewisham</b> from 1732 to 1750, was a British statesman and philanthropist who served as <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Colonies" title="Secretary of State for the Colonies">Secretary of State for the Colonies</a> from 1772 to 1775, during the initial stages of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>. He is also the namesake of <a href="/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_Years">Early Years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early Years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dartmouth was the son of George Legge, Viscount Lewisham, who died when Dartmouth was one year old. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Kaye,_3rd_Baronet" title="Sir Arthur Kaye, 3rd Baronet">Sir Arthur Kaye, 3rd Baronet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He entered <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Oxford" title="Trinity College, Oxford">Trinity College, Oxford</a>, in 1748,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1750. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Legge,_Second_Earl_of_Dartmouth,_by_Pompeo_Batoni,_about_1752-1756,_oil_on_canvas,_view_1_-_Hood_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC09096.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/William_Legge%2C_Second_Earl_of_Dartmouth%2C_by_Pompeo_Batoni%2C_about_1752-1756%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_view_1_-_Hood_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC09096.JPG/220px-William_Legge%2C_Second_Earl_of_Dartmouth%2C_by_Pompeo_Batoni%2C_about_1752-1756%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_view_1_-_Hood_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC09096.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/William_Legge%2C_Second_Earl_of_Dartmouth%2C_by_Pompeo_Batoni%2C_about_1752-1756%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_view_1_-_Hood_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC09096.JPG/330px-William_Legge%2C_Second_Earl_of_Dartmouth%2C_by_Pompeo_Batoni%2C_about_1752-1756%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_view_1_-_Hood_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC09096.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/William_Legge%2C_Second_Earl_of_Dartmouth%2C_by_Pompeo_Batoni%2C_about_1752-1756%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_view_1_-_Hood_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC09096.JPG/440px-William_Legge%2C_Second_Earl_of_Dartmouth%2C_by_Pompeo_Batoni%2C_about_1752-1756%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_view_1_-_Hood_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC09096.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3088" data-file-height="4117" /></a><figcaption><i>Portrait of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Pompeo_Batoni" title="Pompeo Batoni">Pompeo Batoni</a>, 1752–56, <a href="/wiki/Hood_Museum_of_Art" title="Hood Museum of Art">Hood Museum of Art</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hanover,_New_Hampshire" title="Hanover, New Hampshire">Hanover, New Hampshire</a></figcaption></figure> <p>It was Lord Dartmouth who, in 1764, at the suggestion of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Haweis" title="Thomas Haweis">Thomas Haweis</a>, recommended <a href="/wiki/John_Newton" title="John Newton">John Newton</a>, the former slave trader and author of "<a href="/wiki/Amazing_Grace" title="Amazing Grace">Amazing Grace</a>", to <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Keene" title="Edmund Keene">Edmund Keene</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Chester" title="Bishop of Chester">Bishop of Chester</a>. He was instrumental in Newton's acceptance for the <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> ministry. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth" title="Special:EditPage/William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2022</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Lord Dartmouth's political career began with the presidency of the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Trade" title="Board of Trade">Board of Trade and Foreign Plantations</a> from 1765-1766.<sup id="cite_ref-archive_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secretary_for_the_Colonies">Secretary for the Colonies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Secretary for the Colonies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lord Dartmouth was <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Colonies" title="Secretary of State for the Colonies">Secretary of State for the Colonies</a> from 1772 to 1775. He was in this role during the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party" title="Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a>. He supported the <a href="/wiki/Intolerable_Acts" title="Intolerable Acts">Intolerable Acts</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Quebec_Act" title="Quebec Act">Quebec Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1772, in correspondence with <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Johnson,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet">Sir William Johnson</a>, the Superintendent of Northern Indian Affairs in America, he suggested that there was no reasonable way the British Government could support new trade regulations with the Indians. He sympathised with Johnson's arguments but stated the Colonies did not seem inclined to concur with any new regulations. </p><p>He received many letters from North Carolina royal governor <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Martin" title="Josiah Martin">Josiah Martin</a> in the summer of 1775 communicating preparations the Loyalist government was making against Patriot militia units and events of the revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He served as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Privy_Seal" title="Lord Privy Seal">Lord Privy Seal</a> from 1775-1782.<sup id="cite_ref-archive_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lord Dartmouth's arrival in the Colonies was celebrated by <a href="/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley" title="Phillis Wheatley">Phillis Wheatley</a>'s famous poem, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Philanthropy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth" title="Special:EditPage/William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22William+Legge%2C+2nd+Earl+of+Dartmouth%22">"William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22William+Legge%2C+2nd+Earl+of+Dartmouth%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22William+Legge%2C+2nd+Earl+of+Dartmouth%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22William+Legge%2C+2nd+Earl+of+Dartmouth%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22William+Legge%2C+2nd+Earl+of+Dartmouth%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22William+Legge%2C+2nd+Earl+of+Dartmouth%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2022</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Lord Dartmouth was a large donor to and the leading trustee for the English trust that would finance the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Moor%27s_Charity_School" title="Moor's Charity School">Moor's Charity School</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Lebanon,_Connecticut" title="Lebanon, Connecticut">Lebanon, Connecticut</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Eleazar_Wheelock" title="Eleazar Wheelock">Eleazar Wheelock</a> to educate and <a href="/wiki/Religious_conversion" title="Religious conversion">convert</a> the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">Indians</a>. </p><p>Wheelock subsequently founded <a href="/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hanover,_New_Hampshire" title="Hanover, New Hampshire">Hanover, New Hampshire</a>, naming the school in Lord Dartmouth's honour, in hopes of getting his financial support. Lord Dartmouth refused. In London, Lord Dartmouth supported the new <a href="/wiki/Foundling_Hospital" title="Foundling Hospital">Foundling Hospital</a>, a charitable institution for the care and maintenance of London's abandoned children. He served as a vice-president of the organisation from 1755 until his death. The famous painter <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Reynolds" title="Joshua Reynolds">Sir Joshua Reynolds</a> painted the Earl's portrait and donated it to the hospital. </p><p>The portrait is still in the Foundling Hospital Collection and can be seen at the <a href="/wiki/Foundling_Museum" title="Foundling Museum">Foundling Museum</a> in London. He was admitted a <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">Fellow of the Royal Society</a> on 7 November 1754.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_and_children">Marriage and children</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Marriage and children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth" title="Special:EditPage/William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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They had nine children together: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Legge,_3rd_Earl_of_Dartmouth" title="George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth">George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth</a> (born 3 October 1755, died 10 November 1810)</li> <li>Hon William Legge (born 4 February 1757)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hon Charles Gounter Legge (born 18 May 1759)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hon Heneage Legge (born 7 May 1761)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hon Henry Legge (born 23 January 1765, died 19 April 1844)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiral" title="Admiral">Admiral</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Honourable" title="The Honourable">the Hon</a> Sir <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Kaye_Legge" title="Arthur Kaye Legge">Arthur Kaye Legge</a> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath" title="Order of the Bath">KCB</a> (born 25 October 1766, died 12 May 1835)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Reverend" title="The Right Reverend">Rt Rev</a> and Hon <a href="/wiki/Edward_Legge_(bishop)" title="Edward Legge (bishop)">Edward Legge</a> (11 December 1767 - 27 January 1827),<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Oxford" title="Bishop of Oxford">Bishop of Oxford</a> 1816–27</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Venerable" title="The Venerable">The Ven</a> and Hon <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Legge_(archdeacon_of_Winchester)" title="Augustus Legge (archdeacon of Winchester)">Augustus George Legge</a> (born 21 April 1773, died 1828),<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Bournemouth" title="Archdeacon of Bournemouth">Archdeacon of Winchester</a> 1814–19</li> <li>Lady Charlotte Legge (5 October 1774 - 5 November 1848),<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> married <a href="/wiki/Charles_Duncombe,_1st_Baron_Feversham" title="Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham">Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dartmouth died at <a href="/wiki/Blackheath,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackheath, Kent">Blackheath, Kent</a>, on 15 July 1801, aged 70. He was buried in <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Holy_Trinity,_Minories" title="Church of Holy Trinity, Minories">Trinity Church in the Minories</a> on 3 August 1801.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarker1892_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarker1892-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was succeeded by his eldest son, <a href="/wiki/George_Legge,_3rd_Earl_of_Dartmouth" title="George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth">George</a>. Lady Dartmouth died in July 1805. 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