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LEGH, PETER, brother of Fleetwood Legh (qv); b. 6 Jan 1707/8; adm. Oct 1721; KS 1724; left 1727; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 7 Oct 1727, matr. 1727; inherited estates of his uncle Peter Legh at Lyme, Cheshire, and Newton, Lancs., 1744; MP Newton 15 Dec 1743-74; m. 20 Dec 1737 Martha, dau. of Thomas Benett, Salthrop, Wilts.; d. 20 May 1792.

LEGGE, WILLIAM, brother of George Augustus Legge (qv); b. 29 Jul 1802; adm. Mich. 1814; Min. Can. 1816; KS (Capt. ) 1817; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1821, matr. 2 Jun 1821, Westminster Student; BA 1825; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1825, priest (Hereford) 1826; Rector of Ashtead, Surrey, from 27 Sep 1826; d. 6 Nov 1872.

LEGGE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, eldest son of Hon. and Rev. Augustus George Legge FSA, Chancellor of Winchester, and Honora, eldest dau. of Walter Bagot (qv); grandson of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth (qv); b. 8 Jul 1801; adm. Mich. 1813; KS 1816; left 1820; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Apr 1820, Canoneer Student 1821-5; BA 1824; ordained priest 10 Jul 1825 (York); Vicar of Bray, Berks., from 27 Jun 1825; m. 23 Aug 1825 Frances Augusta, eldest dau. of William Atkins-Bowyer, Braywick, Berks.; d. 16 Jun 1826.

LEE, MATTHEW, son of William Lee, Northampton; b. 1694; adm.; Min. Can. 1708; QS 1709; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1713, matr. 23 Jun 1713, aged 18, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1713 – Nov 1720, Faculty Student 18 Nov 1720 – void by marriage 7 Jul 1730; BA 1717; MA 1720; MB 1722; MD 1726; medical practitioner successively in Oxford and in London; MRCP 1731, FRCP 1732, Censor 1734, Harveian Orator 1736; Physician to Frederick, Prince of Wales, Oct 1741-51; by his will dated 27 Aug 1755 he bequeathed a large sum of money to Christ Church for the benefit of the Westminster Students, and also for the erection of a School of Anatomy and for the endowment of a Readership in Anatomy; m. 1730 Sarah, youngest dau. of John Knapp, Little Linford, Bucks.; d. 26 Sep 1755. DNB.

By his will dated 27 Aug 1755 (proved 8 Oct 1755) he left certain estates to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, in trust for various purposes including exhibitions for the Westminster Students of Christ Church. The estates subsequently increased greatly in value, and the application of the income was altered more than once by decree of the Court of Chancery. By the ordinance attached to the Christ Church (Oxford) Ordinances Act 1867 £1260 of the annual income was directed to be applied, with other funds, towards the maintenance of the Westminster Junior Studentships at Christ Church.
For Lee’s bequest to Christ Church, Oxford, see E.G.W.Bill, op.cit., pp 104-5. The bequest to Christ Church amounted to approximately £30,000, out of which a fund of £50 was set up for the better support of the Westminster Students during the first year after their election, and Lee’s bequest also funded a number of exhibitions (four of which were specifically ‘mathematical’) for Westminster Students nominated by the Dean and Chapter. These “were worth £10 a year and were tenable for a maximum of eight years”, and were awarded to nearly every Westminster Student, and “from about 1786 the exhibitions were usually given some two years after matriculation”. The “Lee foundation was very wealthy” and the value of these exhibitions were increased to £30 a year in 1807.

Lee, John Hilary, son of Alfred Eustace Lee, asst master Bradfield College, and Ethel Adah, d. of Capt. William Bishop Andrews MN, of Boscombe, Hants; b. 5 Jan. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (KS); left July 1929; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, BA 1932, MA 1939; asst master Ampleforth Coll. 1932-4, Blundell's Sch. 1934-46, head of Chemistry Felsted Sch. 1946-71; head of Physical Science Kingsway Sen. Sch. Amanzimtoti, Natal, 1972-3; Felsted Sch. (part time) 1974-7; m. 17 Apr. 1945 Audrey Evelyn Eugenie, d. of Capt. Thomas Singleton Tomlinson, Roy. Munster Fusiliers; d. 30 Sept. 2001.

Lee, Alexander Johnson, youngest son of the Rev. John Walter Lee, Vicar of Brilley, co. Hereford; b. May 23, 1870; adm. as Q.S. June 12, 1884; left July 1887; Non-Coll. Oxon., matric. Oct. 15, 1887; B.A. 1890; ordained 1893; Curate of Kingsbridge, Devon, 1893-6, of St. Augustine's, Stepney, London, from 1896; d. May 2, 1919.

LEADER, WILLIAM, son of William Leader MP, Putney Hill, Surrey, coach builder, distiller and glass manufacturer, and Mary ---; b. 1 Dec 1801; adm. 20 Sep 1815 (Smedley's); KS 1816; left 1820; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Apr 1820; BA 1824; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 May 1824; d. from effects of an accident at Oxford 28 Feb 1826.

Lea, John Geoffrey, son of William Joseph Lea of Market Drayton, Shropshire, and Janie Ethel, d. of John Edwin Danks, architect to GWR; b. 25 June 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (KS); left July 1931; Imp. Coll. Lond. 1931-2; a farmer in Shropshire 1933-79, retd; m. 1st 14 Oct. 1937 Marie Louise, d. of Charles Pimley Bailey of Donnington, Shropshire; 2nd 24 Oct. 1964 Pauline Ida, d. of Roy Cavarth of Bourne, Lincs; d. 25 Dec. 1991.

LE HUNTE, RICHARD, eldest son of George Le Hunte, Ballymartin, co. Wexford, and Editha Jones; nephew of William Le Hunte (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1732/3; KS 1737; Capt. of the School 1741; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr. 19 Jun 1742, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1742, Tutor 1753-5; BA 1746; MA 1749; ordained deacon 24 May 1752, priest 17 Jun 1753 (both Oxford); d. by 10 Jul 1755.