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{{Short description|English botanist (1885–1939)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lady Joan Legge
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1885|02|21|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Marylebone]], London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1939|07|04|1885|02|21|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Valley of Flowers]], India
| education =
| father = [[William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth|William Legge]]
| relatives = [[William Legge, 7th Earl of Dartmouth|William Legge]] (brother)<br/>[[Humphry Legge, 8th Earl of Dartmouth|Humphry Legge]] (brother)
}}
'''Lady Joan Margaret Legge''' [[Justice of the Peace|JP]] (21 February 1885 – 4 July 1939) was an [[English people|English]] botanist who had a fatal accident while collecting samples in the [[Valley of Flowers]] in India.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Lady Joan Legge |work=[[The Times]] |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date= 7 July 1939 |page= 16 }}</ref>

==Early life==
Legge was born at 55 Manchester St.<ref name="births">{{cite news |title= Births |work=[[The Times]] |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date=24 February 1885 |page= 1}}</ref> in [[Marylebone]], London, to [[William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth]], and [[William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth#Family|Lady Mary Coke]].<ref name=portrait>{{cite web|last=National Portrait Gallery|title=Group in fancy dress for the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Ball|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw225752/Group-in-fancy-dress-for-the-Shakespeare-Memorial-National-Theatre-Ball?LinkID=mp135420&role=sit&rNo=0#sitter|publisher=npg.org.uk|accessdate=7 June 2013}}</ref> She held the office of [[Justice of the peace#United Kingdom|Justice of Peace]] for [[Staffordshire]].<ref name="obit"/>

==Death==
[[File:Margaretc.jpg|thumb|Tomb of Lady Joan Margaret Legge]]
In 1939, Legge went to India to study flora in the [[Valley of Flowers]] on behalf of the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]].<ref name=butler>{{cite book|editor-last=Butler|editor-first=Richard W.|editor-last2=Pearce|editor-first2=Douglas G.|title=Tourism Development.|year=1999|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=9780203380307|page=205|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQmGzEJoJKUC&q=Joan+Margaret+Legge+botanist&pg=PA205}}</ref> While traversing some rocky slopes to collect flowers, she slipped off and lost her life.<ref name=joan>{{cite web|title=Valley of Flowers|url=http://www.sikhnet.com/oldsikhnet/HemkuntSahib/valley.htm|publisher=sikhnet.com|accessdate=5 June 2013}}</ref> She died unmarried at the age of 54.

Legge's sister came in search of her and built a tomb in the Valley of Flowers.<ref name=flowers>{{cite web|last=N. Ulysses and Tabish|first=Thingnam Girija|title=Trek to Valley of Flowers|url=http://www.flowersofindia.net/vof-trek/|publisher=Flowers of India|accessdate=5 June 2013}}</ref>

==Commemoration==
In 2010 a new species of ''[[Impatiens]]'' found near the Valley of Flowers was named ''[[Impatiens leggei]]'' as a tribute to Legge.<ref name=leggebalsam>{{cite web|title=Mary Legge's Balsam|url=http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Mary%20Legge's%20Balsam.html|publisher=Flowers of India|accessdate=10 July 2017}}</ref><ref name=taiwania>{{cite web|last=D.K. Singh|first=P.K. Pusalkar|title=Three New Species of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from Western Himalaya, India|url=http://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/taiwania/pdf/tai.2010.55.13.pdf|publisher=Taiwania, 55(1): 13-23, 2010}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1885 births]]
[[Category:1939 deaths]]
[[Category:Accidental deaths from falls in India]]
[[Category:Daughters of British earls]]
[[Category:Legge family|Joan Margaret]]
[[Category:People from Marylebone]]

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