Arquivo F2869 - Leslie Edmund Law fonds

Leslie Edmund Law was born at Northampton, England, on 5 February 1903. He was educated at Blexham School, and at University College, London. He received an M.A. in Literature from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1932; and an M.A. in Philosophy form University of London, in 1948. From 1927 until 1940, he was first a Lecturer and then an Associate Professor of Ancient History at Queen's University at Kingston. During this time he also served as Secreatry of the Arts Research Committee, President of the Queen's Players, Honorary President of the Student Christian Movement, member of the Kingston General Hospital's Committee of Manegement.
Upon his return to England in 1940, he took on the role of Acting Secretary of the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford (1940-1945), and in 1948, he became the Assistant Master, in charge of the Department of Latin, at the County Grammar School, Mitcham, Surrey.