Lady Dartmouth Dies

Word has been received that Lady Dartmouth, wife of Lord Dartmouth, a descendant of the Earl of Legge, whose generosity prompted Eleazar Wheelock to name his school Dartmouth College, died recently in England. The following appeared in the London Times of December 81, 1929:

The Countess of Dartmouth died at 5 Belgrave-place on Saturday at the age of 80. She was Lady Mary Coke, the fourth daughter, by his first marriage, of the second Earl of Leicester and was the sister of the present earl and of the Dowager Ladies Powerscourt, Dunmore, Leitrim, and Lichfield, and of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Wenman Coke. She was married in December, 1879, to Viscount Lewisham, who was then member for West Kent, and was afterwards member for Lewisham and for several years Conservative Whip. He succeeded as sixth Earl of Dartmouth in 1891.

Lady Dartmouth took a great interest in charitable and social work, and was created C.B.E. in 1920. She also had the Order of Mercy, and was a lady president of the league. She leaves two sons, Viscount Lewisham, who was appointed in 1928 to execute the office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and Commander the Hon. Humphrey Legge, D.S. 0., and two daughters, one of whom is the wife of Colonel F. H. L. Meynell, D.S.O. Her second son, Captain the Hon. Gerald Legge, was killed in action in 1915.