Legge, James

a Chinese scholar, born in Huntly, Aberdeen shire; studied at King's College, Aberdeen; was sent out as mi ionary to the Chinese by the London Mi ionary Society in 1839, laboured for 30 years at Hong-Kong, and became profe or of the Chinese Language and Literature at Oxford in 1876; edited with a translation and notes the Chinese cla ics, the "four Shu ," and the "five King ," and gave lectures on the religions of China as compared with Christianity; b . 1815.