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WE regret to record the death of Mr. Leland Lewis Duncan, the Kentish antiquarian. The field in which he was perhaps best known to the public was that of medieval archaeology and ecclesiology, subjects on which he wrote extensively. He specialised in the history of the parish of Lewisham; but while he gave much attention to local historical problems generally, the principal subject of his investigations was the parish church, particularly in the medieval period. Apart from the work of actual investigation, he did a great service to archaeology in founding the Lewisham Antiquarian Society in conjunction with Sir Edward Brabrook, Canon Legge, afterwards Bishop of Lichfield, and others. He thus continued the work which had been begun some years before by Sir Flinders Petrie, and, with other members of the Society, did much to promote the investigation of the early and medieval history of south-east London and the adjacent area of Kent on thoroughly scientific lines.
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Mr. Leland L. Duncan. Nature 113, 91 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113091b0
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