William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth

1. Biographical notice of the Earl of Dartmouth, Page 104, The New Hampshire Repository, Volumes 1-2, William Cogswell, Publisher:Alfred Prescott, 1846
2. Barker 1892.
3. "London, Sept. 6" . The Newcastle Courant: with News Forreign and Domestick. 8–10 September 1711. Retrieved 1 July 2014– via British Newspaper Archive.
4. Hamilton, Elizabeth. The Backstairs Dragon - a life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Hamish Hamilton: London, 1969.
5. Gregg, Edward. Queen Anne (2nd ed.) Yale University Press, 2001.
6. Hamilton, The Backstairs Dragon.
7. UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current
8. "A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part)". British History Online. Victoria County History, 1976. Retrieved 18 March 2025.

Attribution This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Barker, George Fisher Russell (1892). "Legge, William (1672-1750)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

The Right Honourable The Earl of Dartmouth PC
Southern Secretary
In office 1710–1713

Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Sunderland	Secretary of State for the Southern Department 1710–1713	Succeeded by The Viscount Bolingbroke
Preceded by John Robinson	Lord Privy Seal 1713–1714	Succeeded by The Marquess of Wharton
Peerage of England
Preceded by George Legge	Baron Dartmouth 1691–1750	Succeeded by William Legge
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation	Earl of Dartmouth 1711–1750	Succeeded by William Legge