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 (1889-1970) was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.[1] He was the president of the Charleston County Bar starting in 1940.[2] Justice Legge and his wife, Dorothy Haskell Porcher Legge, undertook the first restoration of Charleston's historic Rainbow Row homes in 1931 and made 99-101 East Bay Street their home.[3] He is buried at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.[4]

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 Legge Heads Lawyers". Evening Post. Charleston, South Carolina. April 6, 1940. p. 11.
  3. "Building in July Totaled $90,726". News and Courier. Charleston, South Carolina. August 4, 1931. p. 12.
  4. "Lionel Kennedy Legge (1889-1970)". Find a Grave. Retrieved November 30, 2014.


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