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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 367 London in 1343, and was lord mayor in the years 1346 and 1353. In 1338, this opulent citizen lent Edwaed III £300 towards carrying on the war with Fr/ince, which was a very cousideruble sum in those days, and more than any other citizen ailvanced, except the lord mayor and Simon de Frauncis, who each lent £800 in the ensuing year. Alder- man Legge is staled to have m. Lady Eliza- beth Beauchamp, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Warwick; he had two sons, Simon, his heir, and John, knight of the shire for Surri-y, 1 379, beheaded by Wat Tyler's rebels. From Simon, the elder son, descended William Legge, who wc nt to Ireland in the 15th century, and settled in co. Tipperary, where this branch rf the family continued to reside until the family estates were broken up and sold by Mr. R. V. Legge's father in the beginning of tlie present century. During the last century the family se:its in co. Tip- perary were Grarrane and Ballinderry, and also a large estate in England, called Pinner, which was, however, bequeathed to the second Earl of Dartmouth by Mr. R. V. Legge's great grand-uncle. Major Francis Legge, governor of Nora Scotia. William Legge m. Anne, only daughter of John, son of Miles, Lord Bermingham. He d. at the advanced age of 90, and was *. by his son, Edwaed Legge, vice-president of Munster during the lieutenancy of his kinsman, Sir Charles Blount, Lorcl Mountjoy, the com- panion of Walter Raleiph. This gentleman m. Mary, daughter of Percy Walsh, Esq. of Moyvalley, and had six sons and seven daughters. From one of these sons the pre- sent Mr. R. V. Legge is supposed to be descended. The eldest son, Colonel William Legge, was brought out of Ii-eland by his godfather, Henry Danvers, Earl of Dauby, and sent by him to serve as a volunteer under G-u.stavus Adolphus of Sweden ; and he fought afterwards under Prince Maurice of Orange, in the Low Countries. On his return to England, he was first constituted keeper of the king's wardrobe, during life ; and made, soon after, groom of the bedchamber. Colonel Legge, during the Civil Wars, became emi- nently distinguished by his faithful attach- ment to Chaeles I, and his persevering exertions in the royal cause, before and after the death of the king. At the battle of Worcester he was wounded and taken prisoner, and would have been executed, if his wife had not contrifed his escape from Coventry gaol in her own clothes. lie was high in favour after the Restoration, and enjoyed several lucrative and honourable ollices, amongst them the governorship of Oxford. From him is descended the Earl of Dartmouth (see Burke's Feerafji). Michael Legge, Esq. of Ballinderry and Roileen, co. Tipperary, Ireland, son of El>- wAiiD Legge, Esq., m. Anne, daughter of Simon Young, Esq. of Brooklield, co. Tip- perary, and had issue, Michael Legge, Esq. of Garrane, co. Tip- perary, m. Blanche, daughter of Colonel Vincent, and d. 7th October, 1834, aged 70, I laving had by her (who d. 15th April, 1819, aged 4G), I. William, in. Maria Eyre Silk, and hud issue, Wilham ; John ; Blanche ; Blaria ; Letitia ; and Lucy. II. RoBEET Vincent, now of CuUens- wood House. I. Eliza, m. Mathew Franks, Esq., and had issue, Robert; Rebecca; and Ellen. II. Mary, m. Captain James Gray, of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment, and had issue, William; James; Talbot; Blanche ; Bessie ; Minnie ; and Annie. III. Alicia, m. Henry Jennings, Esq., and had issue, Henry ; Robert ; Blanche ; Philip])a; Sophia; Fanny; Henrietta; and Alicia. IV. Sarah, m. Thomas Pitcairn, Esq., and had issue, Robert; Thomas; and. Blanche. T. Frances Blanche, m. 7th November, 1827, Captain Edwiird Diimaresq, R.E., of Mount Ireh, Hadspen, Tasmania, and of St. Heller's, East Kew, Mel- bourne, Victoria, late of the Bombay Army, and d. 15th July, 1855, having had issue (see Dumaeesq of Mount Ieeh). Arms used — Or, two lions pass, counter- pass, az., quartering, arg., three mullets, two and one. Crest^A man's leg, coi'ped at the middle of the thigh, standing on a triple tower, all ppr. Motto— Se defendendo. Besidpnce — Cullenswood House, St. Mary's, Break oDay River, Tasmania. atlantr of i&olutctitt. A GLAND, HON. JOHN BARTON ARUNDEL, of Holnicote, Mount Peel, Rangitata, Canterbury, New Zealand, M.A. of the University of Oxford, barrister-at-law, and a member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand since 1865. Mr. Acland was h. at Killerton, near Exeter, co. Devon, England, 25th November, 1823 ; he was educated at Hiirrow and Christ Church, Oxford ; was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, la49 ; and went to New Zealand in 1854, landing at Lyttclton, in the Canterbury Settlement,