William Edward Hartpole Lecky OM
(1838-1903)

historian, essayist, and Order of Merit recipient (from 1902)

Died aged c. 65

William Edward Hartpole Lecky OM PC FBA (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities. His major work was an eight-volume History of Ireland during the Eighteenth Century.

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W. E. H. Lecky (1838-1903), historian and essayist, lived and died here.

38 Onslow Gardens, Kensington and Chelsea, SW7, London, United Kingdom where they lived and died (1903)