Early Life
Lecky was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, descended from a Quaker family which was involved in the Irish jute industry. The family included the 19th-century historian and MP William Edward Hartpole Lecky. John Lecky was the eldest grandson of H R MacMillan, a timber and paper magnate, who impressed on him the importance of setting demanding goals in life and of applying hard work and iron self-discipline to achieve them. He attended Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island, where his interest in rugby was kindled through a training session run by Dicky Jeeps, the English scrum half who was on a tour with the British Lions. Lecky then went to University of British Columbia to study Economics and started to row. At the age of 20, he won a silver medal for Canada as part of the eights crew at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He then went to read Law at Jesus College, Cambridge.
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