THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD.
Born 1839.
AGE 7.
From a Crayon Drawing.
AGE 19.
From a Drawing.
AGE 23.
From a Photo by Bayard & Bertall, Paris.
PRESENT DAY.
From a Photo by H. J. Whitlock, Birmingham.
The Hon. Augustus Legge, Bishop of Lichfield, is the fourth son of William, fourth Earl of Dartmouth. At the age of fourteen he was sent to Eton, and later on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. He was ordained in 1864, his first curacy being at Handsworth, Birmingham. In 1879 he succeeded his uncle, the Hon. Henry Legge, in the important benefice of St. Mary's, Lewisham. He was made Bishop in September, 1893.