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Sir William Lee-Warner

Sir William Lee-Warner

Coorg in 1895.[1][2][3]
In 1907 he headed the eponymous Lee Warner Committee that examined Indians receiving education in Britain.

Early life and education

Lee-Warner was born in

moral sciences tripos, and graduated M.A. in 1872.[2][6]

Career

Lee-Warner joined the Bombay Civil Service in 1869, and his lengthy career included district, secretariat, educational, and political experience. He served as Director of Public Instruction in Berar, private secretary to the Governor of Bombay Sir Philip Wodehouse, Director of Public Instruction in Bombay, and Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department. He spent six years as Chief Secretary to the Bombay Government, and he represented the province of Bombay for two terms on the Supreme Legislature. He also founded the first "up-country" nursing association for Europeans and a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Bombay and in Sind.[2]

A fellow of the

1st Marquess of Dalhousie.[9]

In 1907, Lee Warner was chosen to head a committee that looked at the situation of Indian students in British Universities. This was established due to a general feeling that Indian students did not make the best of the education system and that they were becoming radical nationalists at the places where they lived, notably Shyamji Krishna Varma's India House at Highgate.[10] The report was based on interviews with 35 Indian students and 65 Europeans. The report was not published, presumably because it could offend Indians. It was published only in 1922 as an appendix to the Lytton report.[11]

He published another small book entitled The Citizen of India, which according to The Times in 1914, "met with hearty approval among thoughtful Indians as setting a high and just ideal of civic duty and British and Indian cooperation." He received an honorary LL.D. from Cambridge.[2]

In 1895, Lord George Hamilton requested Lee-Warner return to England to serve as Secretary of the Political and Secret Department at the India Office. He was appointed to the Secretary of State's Council of India in October 1902,[12] serving until 1910.[2]

Honours

Lee-Warner was appointed a Companion Order of the Star of India (CSI) in the 1892 New Year Honours. He was knighted in the same order (KCSI) in the 1898 Birthday Honours and promoted, upon the recommendation of Viscount Morley, to Knight Grand Commander (GCSI) in the 1911 New Year Honours, an honour typically reserved for Viceroys, Governors, and Secretaries of State in British India.[2]

Personal life

In 1876, Lee-Warner married Ellen Paulina, eldest daughter of Major-General Henry William Holland, CB, in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. They had four sons: Cecil John Lee-Warner (1879–1907), who drowned aged 28, while bathing at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island;[13] William Hamilton Lee-Warner, OBE (1880–1943);who served in the Colonial Civil Service,[14] Philip Henry Lee-Warner (1886–1925), who married an American from Boston; and Roland Paul Lee-Warner (1892–1960).

In 1914, Sir William died of heart failure following a case of accidental blood poisoning.[2]

References

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34472. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Death of Sir William Lee-Warner". The Times. 19 January 1914. p. 11.
  3. ^ "The 'Peccavi' Story", The Observer; 2 September 1917
  4. ^ 1851 England Census
  5. ^ Walford, Edward (1871). The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Robert Hardwicke. p. 595. Retrieved 2 July 2018. Henry James Lee Warner.
  6. ^ "Lee Warner, William (LY865W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  7. ^ Lee-Warner, Sir William (1910). The Native States of India (2nd ed.). Macmillan.
  8. ^ W.M. Flinders Petrie; Hans F. Helmolt; Stanley Lane-Poole; Robert Nisbet Bain; Hugo Winckler; Archibald H. Sayce; Alfred Russel Wallace; William Lee-Warner; Holland Thompson; W. Stewart Wallace (1915). The Book of History, a History of All Nations From the Earliest Times to the Present. Viscount Bryce (Introduction). The Grolier Society.
  9. ^ Lee-Warner, Sir William (1904). The Life of the Marquess of Dalhousie. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ Ahmed, Rehana; Mukherjee, Sumita (2012). South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 – 1947. A&C Black.
  11. ^ Lahiri, Shompa (2000). Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian Encounters, Race and Identity, 1880-1930. Taylor & Francis. pp. 14–15.
  12. ^ "The Council of India". The Times. No. 36904. London. 21 October 1902. p. 6.
  13. ^ Lefroy, W. (21 September 1907). "Births, Marriages, and Deaths". Canada: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for All Interested in the Dominion: 325.
  14. ^ "Obituary". The Meteor (Rugby School): 74. April 1943 – December 1944.
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