Augustus Legge (28 November 1839[1] – 15 March 1913)[2] was Bishop of Lichfield from 1891[3] until 1913.

He married Fanny Louisa, daughter of William Bruce Stopford Sackville, in 1877.

[4] Ordained in 1864,[1] he served curacies at Handsworth, Staffordshire (1864–1866) — where his family owned land — and afterwards at St Mary's, Bryanston Square (1866–1867).

[5] His brother (by then Earl of Dartmouth, and patron of the church) presented him to become[5] Vicar of St Bartholomew's, Sydenham[6] (1867–1879); he became additionally domestic chaplain to Anthony Thorold, Bishop of Rochester, and an honorary canon of Rochester Cathedral (1877–1891);[1] he succeeded his uncle (Henry Legge) as Vicar of St Mary's, Lewisham (1879–1891)[5] — where his brother was lord of the manor; and served additionally as Rural Dean of Greenwich (1880–1886);[1] and of Lewisham[7] (1886–1891)[1] before his appointment to the episcopate: his election to the See of Lichfield was confirmed at St Mary-le-Bow on 28 September and he was consecrated a bishop at St Paul's Cathedral on 29 September 1891, by Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury.

[8] From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the London School Board, representing the Greenwich Division.