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 An obituary notice of him in The Times (19 January 1914) justifiably states that no more genuine friend of the Indian people, and particularly of the agricultural classes, served India in our time. He was trusted and admired by successive secretaries of state; and though his intimate knowledge of Indian intricacies and his fearless independence of judgement were a foil to Lord Morley's radical ideals for India, that statesman recognized the value of his criticism when he put forward the recommendation whereby in 1911 Lee-Warner was promoted G.C.S.I.

Lee-Warner wrote the authoritative Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie (1904) and, from intimate personal knowledge, Memoirs of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1908). He contributed to this, to the Cambridge Modern History, to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and to other works of reference, besides writing frequently for the quarterly and monthly reviews. Of marked simplicity of character, and a devout evangelical churchman, his activities in religious and philanthropic enterprise were many-sided. He used up his strength both of mind and body remorselessly. After his retirement from the India Office in 1912, he had many schemes for literary and other work for his beloved India. Refusing to rest, he broke down in health, and died 18 January 1914. He is buried in the churchyard of the home of his childhood, Little Walsingham.

Lee-Warner married in 1876 Ellen Paulina, eldest daughter of Major-General J. W. Holland, and was survived by three sons. Another son was accidentally drowned at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, in 1906.

 LEGG, JOHN WICKHAM (1843–1921), physician and liturgiologist, was born at Alverstoke, Hampshire, 28 December 1843, the third son of George Legg, of Alverstoke, by his wife, Ellen Austin. Samuel Wilberforce [q.v.] was vicar of Alverstoke from 1840 until his appointment as bishop of Oxford in 1845, and the church revival which he began in this parish probably influenced the boy. Educated locally, Wickham Legg, on leaving school, entered University College, London, in order to study medicine, and became a pupil of Sir William Jenner [q.v.]. He won the gold medal of his year, and having qualified M.R.C.S. in 1866 became, on Jenner's recommendation, resident medical attendant to Prince Leopold, afterwards Duke of Albany. He resigned this post in 1867 and went to study at Berlin under Professor Virchow; in 1868 he returned to England in order to become curator of the pathological museum at University College. In the same year he took his M.D. degree at London, and became M.R.C.P.; he was elected F.R.C.P. in 1876. In 1870 he was appointed casualty physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1878 was elected assistant physician; he also held various appointments in the medical school of the hospital. In addition, he had a growing consulting practice and made considerable contributions to the literature of medicine, of which his treatise on Haemophilia (1872) is probably the best known. ‘All Wickham Legg's medical writings show the same qualities. The language is well chosen; the main thesis carefully worked out; the literature of the subject has been thoroughly mastered, and in every paper he has something definite to say’ [Memoir, p. 3]. The range of his researches was not less remarkable than his presentation of them.

Nevertheless, in 1887, after two attacks of rheumatic fever, Wickham Legg resolved to abandon medicine; he resigned his appointments, gave away his medical books, and retired from practice. Medicine was not his only interest; as early as 1875 he had been elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, while as a churchman he was greatly influenced by Dr. Henry Parry Liddon. The study of liturgies was a strong interest in his life, and he now had the leisure to bring to it the accurate scientific training which, joined to his brilliance and eagerness for research, had made his reputation as a physician. In this new field of learning he rapidly obtained a European reputation, his first great contribution to liturgical science being his edition (1888) of the Quignon Breviary of 1535. He was one of the prime movers in the foundation, in 1890, of the Henry Bradshaw Society for printing rare liturgical texts. For that society he edited the Westminster Missal (3 vols., 1891–1897), the Second Recension of the Quignon Breviary (2 vols., 1908, 1912), and seven other volumes, and he was chairman of the council from 1897 till his death. His researches in the libraries of Western Europe bore fruit in essays printed in the publications of various learned societies; some are gathered up into his Ecclesio- 330