William Lee-Warner

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 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.
4. Lee-Warner, Sir William (1904). The Life of the Marquess of Dalhousie. London.
5. Lee-Warner, Sir William (1910). The Native States of India (2nd ed.). Macmillan.