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other societies who were present, and proposed the thanks of the meeting 
to the conductors and referees ; these were accorded by acclamation. 
Mr. Farrell expressed the thanks of the School Nature Study Union 
for the invitation extended to its members, Mrs. Boyd Watt similarly 
replied for the Gilbert White Fellowship, Mr. Fagg for the Croydon Natural 
History Society, and a member of the South London Botanical Institute 
for his Society, and the meeting then terminated. 
The walk through the moonlit Forest to the railway stations en route 
foi home constituted not the least enjoyable experience of a delightful day. 
JABEZ LEGG. 
A FORGOTTEN LOCAL WORTHY. 
By JOHN AVERY, F.C.A., F.S. 3 . 
(With Plate III.) 
[Read 27//* November 1920.] 
O NE hundred years ago the site of the West Ham Technical 
Institute was known as Stratford Common, and the 
nearest property on the east side along the main road consisted 
of two houses known as Carnarvon Villas. These houses are 
still standing just west of Carnarvon Road, behind what is 
known as Salisbury Hall, and the property was known in recent 
years as Salisbury House. No. i Carnarvon Villas was at that 
time occupied by a gentleman named Jabez Legg. He was 
in business with his father, Mr. Samuel Legg, at No. 2 Knight- 
rider Street, in the City of London, as Undertakers. Both father 
and son were prominent members of the Congregational De¬ 
nomination, and they were deacons of the old Poultry Chapel, 
which was sold and the proceeds used in part payment of the 
building of the City Temple. At the period mentioned, when 
Wanstead House was in its glory and the whole district was 
considered to be in the country, one of the principal attractions 
was the tea gardens attached to the Eagle and Child Public House, 
opposite the Forest Gate House in the Woodford Road leading 
from Upton to Wanstead Flats, and in consequence of the 
spiritual destitution of the district, Jabez Legg in the year 1S30 
conceived the idea of erecting a small Mission Hall or Chapel at a 
cost of £220 and conducted services therein, also providing 
day-school accommodation for the children of the residents 
in the district of the Broadway, a district which commenced to 
be developed as a building estate about 1820. In 1856, Mr. Legg, 
with assistance from several members of the Society of Friends, 
