Thomas Morison Legge

Sir Thomas Morison Legge CBE (6 January 1863 – 7 May 1932) was a British physician who served as medical inspector to improve industrial hygiene.
Legge was born in Hong Kong, the son of Scottish Chinese-language scholar James Legge and his second wife, Hannah Mary Johnstone. He was educated at Magdalen College School and Trinity College, Oxford, earning a degree in medicine in 1886. He was the first Medical Inspector of Factories and Workshops in the United Kingdom, appointed in 1898 and resigning on 29 November 1926. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918 and knighted in the 1925 New Year Honours. His work was especially concerned with anthrax and lead poisoning.
Legge's axioms, which he expounded in 1929, are "famous". They include the following: