Thomas Morison Legge

Sir Thomas Morison Legge CBE[1] (6 January 1863 – 7 May 1932) was a British physician who served as medical inspector to improve industrial hygiene.

[3] He became a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, and graduated M.B.

[4] Appointed in 1898, Legge was the first Medical Inspector of Factories and Workshops in the United Kingdom.

[4] Legge was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918 and knighted in the 1925 New Year Honours.

[8] He was awarded the Bisset Hawkins Medal of the Royal College of Physicians in 1923.

Thomas Morison Legge, photograph by Graystone Bird