Lord Dartmouth’s War of Words, 1775
byIt was late 1775, and William Legge, the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, was looking out the window of his office in Whitehall, London, thinking…
It was late 1775, and William Legge, the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, was looking out the window of his office in Whitehall, London, thinking…
While the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was on holiday in the summer of 1774, his office continued to receive…
William Legge, the second Earl of Dartmouth, had three interests: his family, his estates, and his religion. He was known by many as “the…