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Lionel K. Legge

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Lionel Kennedy Legge
Associate Justice of South Carolina
In office
1954 – December 1961
Preceded byEdward Ladson Fishburne
Succeeded byThomas P. Bussey
Personal details
BornDecember 11, 1889
DiedJuly 22, 1970 (1970-07-23) (aged 80)
Charleston, South Carolina
SpouseDorothy Haskell Porcher
Alma materCollege of Charleston
Columbia University (J.D.)
Justice Legge and his wife restored and then occupied 99-101 East Bay Street on Charleston's Rainbow Row.

Lionel K. Legge was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.[1] Justice Legge and his wife, Dorothy Haskell Porcher Legge, undertook the first restoration of Charleston's historic Rainbow Row homes in the 1930s and made 99-101 East Bay Street their home. He is buried at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Justice Legge Dies Here At 80". News and Courier. Charleston, South Carolina. July 23, 1970. p. 1. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  2. ^ "Lionel Kennedy Legge (1889-1970)". Find a Grave. Retrieved November 30, 2014.