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- Q5481700 description "British colonial governor".
- Q5481700 description "British colonial governor".
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- Q5481700 abstract "Francis Legge (c.1719-1783), was a British military officer and colonial official in Nova Scotia during the 18th century. He served as Governor of Nova Scotia from 1772 to 1776. During the American Revolution, he raised the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment.Legge had served in the territory during the Seven Years' War "without distinction or promotion". However, Legge happened to be a relative of the Earl of Dartmouth.Major Legge was appointed vice-roy of Nova Scotia by Colonial Secretary William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth in 1773. He arrived in Halifax on the Adamant on 6 October 1773 with order to determine what were the financial difficulties in Nova Scotia and cure them. He proceeded to cut unnecessary expenses while trying to keep the province loyal to Britain. According to one account:"[He] began to expose every scandalous detail of the spoils system which permeated Halifax and extended across the province. Even granting that he was an officer and a gentleman dealing with civilians whom he deemed socially his inferiors, he showed an alarming lack of imagination about how men behave when they are cornered and revealed almost none of the art of making himself agreeable to those whom he sought to influence or to work with. He had no gifts for the compromises with human frailty which alone can grease the wheels of politics."Legge's actions, particularly an attempt to audit the province's accounts, earned him a growing number of opponents among the local merchant oligarchy and turned both the legislative council and legislative assembly against him and open rebellion broke out against Legge in the south of the province.Legge was recalled to London in 1776 due to the complaints against him. The Board of Trade in London founding him "wanting" in "that Gracious and Conciliating Deportment which the delicacy of the times and the Tempers of Men under agitation & alarm more particularly demanded" .The new Colonial Secretary, Lord George Germain, was concerned that "the Province will be lost, utterly lost" due to Legge's actions in alienating Nova Scotians and possibly losing the province to the rebellious colonies during the American Revolution. A decision was made to replace him with a more conciliatory administrator, Mariot Arbuthnot. Legge was not permitted to return to Nova Scotia but remained governor in name only until 1782.In 1775, Legge was granted permission to form the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment, of which he became the colonel. Due to his unpopularity very few men were willing to be recruited, and the unit languished until the later years of the war. He remained colonel in absentia until 1782.".
- Q5481700 birthDate "1719".
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- Q5481700 deathDate "1783".
- Q5481700 deathYear "1783".
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- Q5481700 dateOfBirth "1719".
- Q5481700 dateOfDeath "1783".
- Q5481700 name "Legge, Francis".
- Q5481700 shortDescription "British colonial governor".
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- Q5481700 comment "Francis Legge (c.1719-1783), was a British military officer and colonial official in Nova Scotia during the 18th century. He served as Governor of Nova Scotia from 1772 to 1776. During the American Revolution, he raised the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment.Legge had served in the territory during the Seven Years' War "without distinction or promotion".".
- Q5481700 label "Francis Legge".
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- Q5481700 givenName "Francis".
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- Q5481700 surname "Legge".