[James Leigh]. British classical scholar, born at Byfleet, Surrey, on the 22nd of October 1843, and educated at Leamington College and Balliol College, Oxford. He graduated first class in literæ humaniores in 1866, and was elected to a fellowship of his college the same year. This he held until 1907 when, on the resignation of Edward Caird, he was elected to the mastership of the college. His whole life was devoted to university teaching and administration, as classical tutor, examiner, delegate of non-collegiate students, pro-vice-chancellor, etc., and to the study of Roman history. Amongst his published works were Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic (1894), Problems of the Roman Criminal Law (1912), as well as articles on the Roman Constitution in Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities. He died at Oxford on the 28th of March 1916.
