Leopold George Wickham Legg (22 March 1877 – 19 December 1962) was an English academic historian specializing in diplomatic history.
Born in the parish of St George Hanover Square, Westminster, in 1877,[1] the son of John Wickham Legg (1843–1921), a physician and writer on ecclesiology, and his wife Eliza Jane, the young Legg was named after Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853–1884), for whom his father was personal physician.
[7] In 1915, at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster,[8] Legg married Olive Maud, a daughter of William Percival Lindsay, Writer to the Signet, of Edinburgh.
[10] On 11 October 1945, in the chapel of New College, Oxford, their daughter Joan married Frank Willan, a Royal Air Force pilot.
[12] At the time of his death in December 1962, Legg was of 34, St Cross Road, Winchester, and died in the city at the Park House Nursing Home.