About Augusta Legge
Lived 1822 – 1900 (aged 78). Augusta Legge was a philanthropist.
Augusta Legge, Countess of Dartmouth (née Lady Augusta Finch; 18 February 1822 – 1 December 1900) was an English noblewoman and philanthropist.
She was born at Packington Hall, Warwickshire, the daughter of Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford, and his wife, the former Lady Augusta Sophia Greville, daughter of George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick.
She married William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, on 9 June 1846.
In 1853, she founded a Birmingham school in her former residence, Sandwell, when she and her husband moved to Patshull Hall, near Wolverhampton.
She became a widow and she dedicated herself to good works including founding a local Mother's Union and a home for orphan boys. She crossbred chickens to create the Andalusian Bantam.
She died at Woodsome Hall near Huddersfield in 1900.
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Who was Augusta Legge?
English philanthropist
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Augusta Legge was born on 17 January 1822.
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Augusta Legge died on 17 January 1900 in Woodsome Hall.
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Augusta Legge was a philanthropist.
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