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William Lee-Warner

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Sir William Lee-Warner GCSI [1] (1846-1914) was an author and administrator in the Indian Civil Service. He was Chief Commissioner of Coorg in 1895. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge[2]

In 1909 he contributed a chapter on India and Afghanistan to the The Cambridge Modern History and the Grolier Society Book of History.[3] In 1904, he authored a biography of 1st Marquess of Dalhousie.[4] In 1910 Macmillan published his Native States of India.[5]

References

  1. ^ THE "PECCAVI" STORY, The Observer; 2 September 1917;
  2. ^ "Warner, Sir William Lee". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34472. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ W.M. Flinders Petrie, Hans F. Helmolt, Stanley Lane-Poole, Robert Nisbet Bain, Hugo Winckler, Archibald H. Sayce, Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Lee-Warner, Sir William (1904). The Life of the Marquess of Dalhousie. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Lee-Warner, Sir William (1910). The Native States of India (2nd ed.). Macmillan.