Articles - James Granville Legge - Our very first President
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Our very first President
James Granville Legge
17th August 1861 - 17th January 1940
Born: Hong Kong
Eldest Son of Professor James Legge and Hannah Mary Johnstone.
His father was the renowned missionary in Malacca & Hong Kong, translator, educationalist and
First Professor of Chinese at Oxford University - see *note below
Died: Oxford - heart failure
Religion: Pronounced non conformist evangelical
Education:
Dollar Academy, Stirling
City of London School, London, Captain: cricket, football 1874 - 1880
Queens College, Oxford - Scholar MA, Captain of Rowing 1880
Family:
Married Josephine Makins 31 October 1899
3 daughters Cecilia Mireio - born 1900 (retired & died in Liverpool),
Professor Mary Dominica - born 1905 (Died in Oxford)
(Professor of Medieval French, Edinburgh University)
Beatrice Pompilia - born 1906
(Teacher at Royal Holloway College, in Ecclesfield Green)
All unmarried without issue
1 Son Harry James Granville Legge O.B.E. - born 1914
2 sons, Christopher & Anthony
Career:
London
Admiralty 1885 - 1888
Home Office 1888 - 1906 Private secretary to Herbert Gladstone
Her Majesty's Inspector on Reformatory and industrial Schools 1895 - 06
2nd Chief Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools
His 1898 report particularly encouraged the practice of music & also sport and inter schools competition
Gold Medal Royal Commission Paris Exhibition 1889
Liverpool
3 Grove Park, Croxteth Road 1906 - 1925
Director of Education, Liverpool 1906 - 1921
Master of the children's drill, Liverpool Pageant 1907
Nursing Journal January 1915
At the annual meeting of the Garston and District Nursing Association, Liverpool, which receives a grant towards the work of its school nurse, Mr. J.G. Legge, Director of Education, said that there was a suggestion that too much was being done for children by the authorities, and that parents were being relieved, thus causing a loss of grit and fibre, which was the pride of our race. An immense work was being done by that Association, and the real point was in the way it was done. If relief was merely shovelled out it would weaken the moral fibre, but where relief was given under proper conditions it would strengthen rather than weaken.
Served on Prime Minister's committee on Classics in Education 1919 -1921
Volunteer Guard Liverpool 1915 - 1918 (Probably King's Regiment, Scottish)
Wavertree West ward Liverpool Councillor (conservative) 1922 - 1925
Oxford 1925 - 1940 Banbury Road
Retirement
Other interests & achievements (selected)
London
Spent time in London with the 'decadent' arts set
i.e. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley art editor of the Yellow Book quarterly periodical 1893-5 & others such as Augustus John.
WILDE, Oscar Autograph letter to Marian Willets ("Miss Willett"). Magdalen
College, Oxford, "Thursday", [1878].
Marian Fitzgerald Willets was stepdaughter of James Legge, the first
Professor of Chinese at Oxford. The letter to her was originally sent
with a photograph (no longer present) of a Burne-Jones watercolour
owned by Wilde called 'Hope'. Wilde comments: "In so many of Burne-
Jones' pictures we have merely the pagan worship of beauty: but in this
one I seem to see more humanity and sympathy than in all the others".
[Elliott Collection MS Wilde 1]
Liverpool
President - Collegiate Old Boys' Association 1909
President - Sefton (The Aliens) Rugby Football Club 1912 - 1920
Encouraged artists such as the Liverpool wood sculptor Carter Preston who was known for his 3 dimensional silhouettes
Oxford
Founding influence on St Peter's Hall (now College)
Member of Council 1928. Trustee 1934 Donor
Saviour of The Playhouse Theatre Oxford
'Repertory', the Playhouse's magazine
OXFORD PLAYHOUSE
Chair of 12 prominent citizens 1934
Beaumont St Theatre opened 1938
Donor National Art Collections Fund 1947
Provenance for Art Saved Summer of Cowes
Publications
The Thinking Hand 1914 -
Practical education in the elementary school
Rhyme & Revolution in Germany 1918 -
A study in German history, life, literature and character 1813-1850
Echoes From The Greek Anthology 1919
Education Act 1918 - 1919
The Millennium 1927
The Rising Tide 1929 -
An epic in education
Chanticleer 1935 -
A study of the French muse
The Last of Mrs Proudie - 1938
A Barsetshire play
Benefactor - including to Queens College & St Peter's Hall
Amateur musician known for practising during railway journeys
* note: For further details of James Legge's early life and the work and influence of his father, James Legge, in Scotland, Malacaa, China and Oxford, please see Norman Girardot, "The Victorian Translation of China" and/or Dr Lauren Pfister, "The Whole Duty of Man".
Our very first President
James Granville Legge
17th August 1861 - 17th January 1940
Born: Hong Kong
Eldest Son of Professor James Legge and Hannah Mary Johnstone.
His father was the renowned missionary in Malacca & Hong Kong, translator, educationalist and
First Professor of Chinese at Oxford University - see *note below
Died: Oxford - heart failure
Religion: Pronounced non conformist evangelical
Education:
Dollar Academy, Stirling
City of London School, London, Captain: cricket, football 1874 - 1880
Queens College, Oxford - Scholar MA, Captain of Rowing 1880
Family:
Married Josephine Makins 31 October 1899
3 daughters Cecilia Mireio - born 1900 (retired & died in Liverpool),
Professor Mary Dominica - born 1905 (Died in Oxford)
(Professor of Medieval French, Edinburgh University)
Beatrice Pompilia - born 1906
(Teacher at Royal Holloway College, in Ecclesfield Green)
All unmarried without issue
1 Son Harry James Granville Legge O.B.E. - born 1914
2 sons, Christopher & Anthony
Career:
London
Admiralty 1885 - 1888
Home Office 1888 - 1906 Private secretary to Herbert Gladstone
Her Majesty's Inspector on Reformatory and industrial Schools 1895 - 06
2nd Chief Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools
His 1898 report particularly encouraged the practice of music & also sport and inter schools competition
Gold Medal Royal Commission Paris Exhibition 1889
Liverpool
3 Grove Park, Croxteth Road 1906 - 1925
Director of Education, Liverpool 1906 - 1921
Master of the children's drill, Liverpool Pageant 1907
Nursing Journal January 1915
At the annual meeting of the Garston and District Nursing Association, Liverpool, which receives a grant towards the work of its school nurse, Mr. J.G. Legge, Director of Education, said that there was a suggestion that too much was being done for children by the authorities, and that parents were being relieved, thus causing a loss of grit and fibre, which was the pride of our race. An immense work was being done by that Association, and the real point was in the way it was done. If relief was merely shovelled out it would weaken the moral fibre, but where relief was given under proper conditions it would strengthen rather than weaken.
Served on Prime Minister's committee on Classics in Education 1919 -1921
Volunteer Guard Liverpool 1915 - 1918 (Probably King's Regiment, Scottish)
Wavertree West ward Liverpool Councillor (conservative) 1922 - 1925
Oxford 1925 - 1940 Banbury Road
Retirement
Other interests & achievements (selected)
London
Spent time in London with the 'decadent' arts set
i.e. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley art editor of the Yellow Book quarterly periodical 1893-5 & others such as Augustus John.
WILDE, Oscar Autograph letter to Marian Willets ("Miss Willett"). Magdalen
College, Oxford, "Thursday", [1878].
Marian Fitzgerald Willets was stepdaughter of James Legge, the first
Professor of Chinese at Oxford. The letter to her was originally sent
with a photograph (no longer present) of a Burne-Jones watercolour
owned by Wilde called 'Hope'. Wilde comments: "In so many of Burne-
Jones' pictures we have merely the pagan worship of beauty: but in this
one I seem to see more humanity and sympathy than in all the others".
[Elliott Collection MS Wilde 1]
Liverpool
President - Collegiate Old Boys' Association 1909
President - Sefton (The Aliens) Rugby Football Club 1912 - 1920
Encouraged artists such as the Liverpool wood sculptor Carter Preston who was known for his 3 dimensional silhouettes
Oxford
Founding influence on St Peter's Hall (now College)
Member of Council 1928. Trustee 1934 Donor
Saviour of The Playhouse Theatre Oxford
'Repertory', the Playhouse's magazine
OXFORD PLAYHOUSE
Chair of 12 prominent citizens 1934
Beaumont St Theatre opened 1938
Donor National Art Collections Fund 1947
Provenance for Art Saved Summer of Cowes
Publications
The Thinking Hand 1914 -
Practical education in the elementary school
Rhyme & Revolution in Germany 1918 -
A study in German history, life, literature and character 1813-1850
Echoes From The Greek Anthology 1919
Education Act 1918 - 1919
The Millennium 1927
The Rising Tide 1929 -
An epic in education
Chanticleer 1935 -
A study of the French muse
The Last of Mrs Proudie - 1938
A Barsetshire play
Benefactor - including to Queens College & St Peter's Hall
Amateur musician known for practising during railway journeys
* note: For further details of James Legge's early life and the work and influence of his father, James Legge, in Scotland, Malacaa, China and Oxford, please see Norman Girardot, "The Victorian Translation of China" and/or Dr Lauren Pfister, "The Whole Duty of Man".
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