Thomas E. Leggat ’47

Thomas E. Leggat ’47 of Lincoln, Massachusetts, died on April 9 after a long illness. He grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, and graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1942. He came to college as a civilian in 1943 and volunteered in 1944 for the Navy, where he served as a radioman on a destroyer escort in the Pacific theater. He returned, joined Phi Gamma Delta, served on the Winter Carnival Council and graduated in 1949. After a year of teaching he attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1953. He practiced law in Manchester, New Hampshire, for a year before moving to Boston to become a commercial real estate broker for R.M. Bradley Co. In 1965 he founded Leggat, McCall, and Werner, a commercial real estate firm in Boston, where he worked until 1982. He left to found Leggat Co. Inc., a real estate firm he worked at until retirement in 1999. He devoted a significant amount of time to volunteer service, including at Adolescent Consultation Services, the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation, Concord Academy, the Benevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches, the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Boston, Lincoln’s Rural Land Foundation and the Lincoln Foundation. He was an equally committed husband and father who enjoyed the outdoors. He served the College as a national research development program screener and member of the Alumni Fund leadership committee and the real estate advisory committee. Two uncles, a brother, two nieces, a nephew and several of their children were Dartmouth graduates. He is survived by four daughters and his wife.