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John Wickham Legg

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Having developed a taste for this line of work, Legg dedicated his energies, social graces and connections to consolidating it. He was the prime mover behind the foundation in 1890 of the
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and the following year began to lecture on Pathology. The liturgical hobby surfaced publicly in 1879 when he became a founder member of the re-established
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aimed at publishing manuscripts and rare printed works in volumes issued to subscribing members. Fittingly enough for a Society inaugurated in the
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In 1888 Legg faced the public with the first fruits of a series of editions he was to produce in the next three decades: an edition with
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and with an 1881 essay on liturgical colours. The medical career was still unflagging, for in 1883 he gave the Bradshaw Lecture to the
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The medical publications continued, but the liturgical studies also progressed. In 1875 Legg was elected a fellow of the
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on cardiac aneurisms. However, ill health then intervened. Following two attacks of
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He was the third son of the printer and bookseller George Legg, and was born at
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and upon his return he obtained his M.D. Having been granted membership of the
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Legg's publications continued until the last major work, the edition of the
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in 1916. He died at the home of his son, Leopold, by then a Fellow of
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A. Ward & C. Johnson, "John Wickham Legg (1843-1921)", in
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In 1872 Legg married Eliza Jane Houghton and they had a son,
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English physician and theological writer (1843-1921)
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liturgy
ecclesiology
Alverstoke
Portsmouth
Hampshire
England
Winchester College
New College, Oxford
University College, London
Sir William Jenner
Royal College of Surgeons
Queen Victoria
Duke of Albany
haemophiliac
Princess Helen
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
Berlin
Royal College of Physicians
University College
St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
liturgical
Leopold George
Society of Antiquaries
Bart's
St Paul's Ecclesiological Society
Royal College of Physicians
rheumatic fever
Cannes
Cambridge University Press
breviary

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