The Melville Club
Doctor & Humanitarian
About
Dr David James Melville Legge first came to the village in 1922 living first at Wolverley in the High Street and later at Cloverleigh in Shaw Lane where the coach house was converted into a surgery.
His brother Sydney was practicing as a doctor in Shifnal and his brother Grant as a dentist in Bridgnorth.
Dr Legge and his wife ran an extremely effective unofficial Welfare Service in the district until Mrs Legge’s death in 1958. Shortly before the Second World War the three Legge brothers raised the money needed to build Shifnal hospital. This was an enormous achievement at the time.
Dr Legge himself made several large charitable gifts and quietly helped many individuals. The sites of the current Melville Club on Station Road, and 1st Albrighton Scout Group on Shaw Lane were donated to the village by Dr Legge through his fundraising and charity work.
He died in 1974, aged 94 years, after 52 years devoted service to the village.
Albrighton and the surrounding districts have every reason to be extremely grateful for the life and service of Dr Legge. He was in literal sense of the meaning, a Christian Gentleman.
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