Gerald Humphry Legge, 9th Earl of DartmouthFCA (26 April 1924 – 14 December 1997), styled Viscount Lewisham between 1958 and 1962, was a British peer and businessman.
On leaving Eton in 1942, he joined the Coldstream Guards as a Captain and served with them until the end of the Second World War, having been mentioned in despatches. He was subsequently a director of the farming company Rea Bros (based at Ashcombe House) from 1958 to 1989, chairman of the Royal Choral Society from 1970 to 1992 and chairman of the Anglo-Brazilian Society from 1975 to 1994. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1962.
Family
Lord Dartmouth married Raine McCorquodale, the only child of the romance novelist Barbara Cartland and her first husband, Alexander McCorquodale, on 1 July 1948. They had four children:
Donna Miranda Marie Patricia Paternò Castello (b. 7 June 1993)[3]
Donna Chiara Diana Paternò Castello (b. 17 April 1995)[3]
Don Tancredi Lorenzo Paternò Castello (b. 9 April 1997)[3]
The Honourable Henry Legge (b. 28 December 1968), married Cressida Hogg[1] (youngest daughter of Sir Christopher Anthony Hogg),[4][1] on 21 December 1995, and had issue:
Lord and Lady Dartmouth divorced in 1976. Lady Dartmouth later married the 8th Earl Spencer and became the stepmother of Lady Diana Spencer (later Princess of Wales), while Lord Dartmouth married Gwendoline May Seguin four years later.[7] Lord Dartmouth died in 1997 and was succeeded by his oldest son, William.[citation needed]
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