WEH Lecky Statue

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Besides having a library on campus named after him, historian, political thinker and Trinity alum William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903) has been immortalised in bronze by Sir William Goscombe John. The statue was unveiled in 1906 and sits to the south of the Campanile.


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