of the Anti-Gallican tavern, Shire lane, Temple Bar 1808). _b._
1802; in Lord Barrymore’s service as a tiger, being the first to
bear that title; tenor singer at Dublin theatre 1825; sang at
the Haymarket, London 1826, musical conductor there 1827; kept a
music shop at 86 Quadrant, Regent st. 1829–31; bankrupt 18 Nov.
1831 and 21 May 1833; lessee with Melrose and J. K. Chapman of
the Tottenham st. theatre 1829–30; lessee of Drury Lane theatre
1830–31; directed the Lenten oratorios at Drury Lane and Covent
Garden 1831; composer and musical director to Strand theatre
1832–45, to Olympic theatre 1845; succeeded George Hodson as
musical conductor at the Poses Plastiques, Garrick’s Head, Bow
st. 1847; wrote the music to The Sublime and the Beautiful 1828;
The Invincibles 1828; The Nymph of the Grotto 1829; The Witness
1829; The Devil’s Brother 1831; The Legion of Honour 1831
and other dramatic pieces; published two sets of eight songs
Beauties of Byron and Loves of the Butterflies 1828; composed
altogether upwards of 250 pieces of music 1826–51; author
of A complete course of instruction for singing 1872. (_m._
Mrs. Waylett, ballad singer, she _d._ 26 April 1851); found
dead in his old lodgings at Newton terrace, Kennington road,
London 8 Oct. 1851. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _Rev. J. Richardson’s
Recollections_, _ii_ 129–35 (1856).
LEE, SIR GEORGE PHILIP (youngest son of Edward Lee of London).
Lieut. of the yeomen of the guard 13 March 1843 to 23 July 1857;
knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. _d._ Windlesham
court, Bagshot 1 Sep. 1870.
LEE, HARRIET (dau. of John Lee, actor, _d._ 1781). _b._ London
1757; kept a private school with her sister Sophia Lee at
Belvidere house, Bath 1781–1803; carried on a correspondence
with Wm. Godwin the novelist, April to Aug. 1798, declined
his offer of marriage 1798; author of The errors of innocence
5 vols. 1786; The new peerage or our eyes may deceive us, a
comedy Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1787, acted 9 times; Clara Lennox 2
vols. 1797, translated into French 1798; The mysterious marriage
or the heirship of Roselva, a 3 act play 1790, never acted;
Canterbury Tales 5 vols. 1797–1805, containing 12 stories (2
of which were written by her sister Sophia Lee who _d._ 1824),
she dramatised one of the tales ‘Kruitzner’ under title of The
Three Strangers, performed at Covent Garden 10 Dec. 1825, acted
4 times, Lord Byron also dramatised it under title of Werner or
the Inheritance 1822. _d._ Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 1 Aug. 1851.
LEE, HENRIETTA INCLEDON (eld. dau. of Henry Lee, manager of
theatres in west of England). First appeared in London as
Constantia in ‘The man of the world’ 19 Oct. 1831; played at
Covent Garden and Drury Lane, at Olympic theatre during Madame
Vestris’ management to 1839, at Lyceum theatre 1847–48. _d._ at
her lodgings, Orange st. Bloomsbury sq. London 23 May 1866. _Era
27 May 1866 p._ 10.
LEE, HENRY. _b._ 1826; naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium 1872,
a director for a time, printed Aquarium Notes for the use of
visitors; a contributor to Land and Water; his museum of natural
history was one of most valuable private collections in England;
author of The Octopus or the devil fish of fiction and fact
1874; Sea fables explained 1883 and of Sea monsters unmasked
1883, in Fisheries’ Exhibition handbooks; The vegetable lamb of
Tartary, a fable of the cotton plant 1887. _d._ Renton house,
343 Brixton road, London 31 Oct. 1888. _Land and Water 10 Nov.
1888 p._ 568.
LEE, JAMES N. Edited Bell’s Weekly Messenger and Farmers’
Journal to death. _d._ at his lodgings, Laurel grove, Oakfield
road, Penge 11 March 1880 aged 72.
LEE, JAMES PRINCE (eld. son of Stephen Lee, sec. and librarian
of royal society). _b._ London 28 July 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s
sch. 1813–24, captain 1822–4 when he entered Trin. coll. Camb.,
Craven scholar 1827, fellow Oct. 1829; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831;
one of the best Greek scholars of his time; a master at Rugby
1830–8; head master of King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1838–47;
hon. canon of Worcester 6 Sep. 1847; bishop of Manchester 23
Oct. 1847, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 23 Jany. 1848;
held 63 ordinations at which he ordained 471 priests and 522
deacons; consecrated 130 churches 1848–69; promoted Manchester
free library, opened Sep. 1852; author of Sermons and fragments
attributed to Isaac Barrow, D.D. now first collected and edited
from the MSS. in the University and Trinity college libraries
Cambridge 1834, these manuscripts turned out to be spurious;
Suggestions for a practical use of the papal aggression 1851.
_d._ Mauldeth hall, Burnage near Manchester 24 Dec. 1869. _bur._
St. John’s ch. Heaton, Mersey 31 Dec. _E. W. Benson’s Memorial
Sermon 2 ed._ (1880); _John Evans’s Lancashire Authors_ (1850)
153–7; _Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 51 (1848) _portrait_, _lvi_ 55 (1870),
_portrait_.
NOTE.--He bequeathed his library to Owen’s college Manchester, his
widow in Sep. 1875 left £1000 to the college to provide two annual
prizes for encouraging the study of the New Testament in Greek.
LEE, JOHN. _b._ Torwoodlie-Mains, parish of Stow, Midlothian
22 Nov. 1779; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1801; served in
the army hospital service a short time; presbyterian minister
of Peebles 1807; professor of church history at St. Mary’s
college, St. Andrew’s 1812–21, rector of St. Andrew’s univ.
three times; professor of moral philosophy in King’s college,
Aberdeen 1820–1; minister of Canongate ch. Edinb. 1821–5; D.D.
St. Andrew’s 1821; minister of Lady Yester’s ch. Edinb. 1825–34;
chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1840 to death; principal clerk
of the general assembly 1827; minister of St. Giles’s ch. Edinb.
1834–7; principal of united college of St. Andrew’s 1837–40;
dean of chapel royal, Stirling 1840 to death; principal of univ.
of Edinb. 12 March 1840 to death, professor of divinity 14
June 1844 to death, being the first principal who also held a
professorship since the year 1620; moderator of general assembly
1844; collected a library of 20,000 vols., is described in John
Hill Burton’s Bookhunter as Archdeacon Meadows the bibliomaniac;
author of Memorials of the Bible Society in Scotland 1829;
Lectures on the history of the church of Scotland 1860; The
University of Edinburgh from 1583 to 1839. 1880. _d._ at his
residence in Univ. of Edinburgh 2 May 1859. _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882) 135–7 _portrait_; _Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of
Edinburgh_, _ii_ 271–4 (1884); _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb.
iv_ 212–17 (1862); _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol. i_, _part_ 1, _pp._
12–13, 64 (1866).
LEE, JOHN (eld. son of John Fiott of London, merchant 1749–97).
_b._ 28 April 1783; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow
1808–15; fifth wrangler 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, LLD. 1816;
travelling bachelor of the univ. 1807–10; took his mother’s name
of Lee by r.l. 4 Oct. 1815; member of College of Advocates 3
Nov. 1816, steward July 1824 to June 1826, librarian 1826–7,
treasurer 1828–9; barrister G.I. 13 July 1863, gave the society
£500 to found an annual prize for an essay on law 7 May 1864,
bencher of G.I. 9 Nov. 1864 to death; Q.C. 7 July 1864; built an
observatory in south portico of Hartwell house, Bucks. 1830; an
original member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1820, treasurer 1831–40,
pres. 1861–2, gave the advowson of Hartwell to the Soc. 1836
and the advowson of Stone, Bucks. 1866, founded the Lee fund
for relief of widows and children of deceased fellows; F.S.A.
1828; F.R.S. 24 Feb. 1831; pres. and treasurer of Numismatic
Soc. 1837; member of Chronological institute of London, Dec.
1850, pres. 21 Dec. 1853 to 1858 when institute ceased; pres.
of meeting of British Archæological Assoc. at Leicester 1862;
contested Aylesbury 1835, 1841, 1852 and 1863; edited Catalogue
of the Egyptian antiquities at Hartwell House, chiefly arranged
by Joseph Bonomi 1858. _d._ Hartwell house near Aylesbury 25
Feb. 1866. _Memoir of John Lee. Aylesbury_ (1870); _Journal
of British Archæol. Assoc. xxiii_ 302–5 (1867); _Catalogue of
law books in the library at Hartwell_ (1855); _Catalogue of
theological books in the library of Hartwell house_ (1855).
LEE, JOHN. _b._ Bath 25 Oct. 1795; served in the army; first
appeared at Drury Lane as Laertes 1 Oct. 1828; sec. to Edmund
Kean 1826–33 and stage manager Richmond theatre, and it was in
his arms that the tragedian died at Richmond 15 May 1833; acted
Jingle in Moncrieff’s Sam Weller or the Pickwickians at Strand
theatre July 1837; theatrical agent at 24 Bow st. Covent Garden
1847–55; manager of the Café de l’Europe, Haymarket, London, on
decease of Henry Hemming 1849; reappeared at T.R. Richmond as
Shylock 1 July 1869; resided in Jersey many years. _d._ Wilton
house, New St. John’s road, Jersey 5 Oct. 1881. _The Era 15 Oct.
1881 p._ 8; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 33–34, _portrait_.
LEE, JOHN. _b._ 1831; general manager of Drinking fountain
association; F.R.G.S. _d._ Balmain, Anerley road, Surrey 3 Feb.
1884. _bur._ Crystal palace district cemetery 7 Feb.
LEE, JOHN BENJAMIN. _b._ 15 Jany. 1811; admitted attorney 1834;
of firm of Lee, Bolton and Lee, 2 The Sanctuary, Westminster,
and 5 Dean’s court, Doctors’ commons, London; legal secretary
to 20 bishops, including 2 primates and 3 bishops of London;
legal secretary to abp. of Canterbury and to bishops of London,
Winchester, Durham, Carlisle, Ely, Hereford, Norwich, Worcester
and Ripon to death; chapter clerk and registrar and steward of
courts of St. Paul’s cathedral; registrar of diocese of London
to death; a personal friend of archbishop Tait 1856; resided at
Sonning near Reading. _d._ The Charterhouse, London 10 April
1889. _Law Times_, _lxxxvii_ 13 (1889).
LEE, JOHN EDWARD. _b._ Hull 21 Dec. 1808; visited Russia
and Scandinavia; resided at Caerleon Priory, Monmouth, then
at Torquay; F.G.S. 1859; presented his fine collection of
fossils to British Museum 1885; author of Delineation of Roman
antiquities found at Caerleon 1845; Description of a Roman
building discovered at Caerleon 1850; Selections from an
antiquarian sketch book 1859; Isca Silurum, or an illustrated
catalogue of the museum of antiquities at Caerleon 1862; Roman
imperial profiles, one hundred and sixty lithographs 1874;
Note-book of an amateur geologist 1881; translated F. Keller’s
Lake-dwellings of Switzerland 1866, 2 ed. 1878. _d._ Villa
Syracuse, Daddy Hole plain, Torquay 18 Aug. 1887. _Proc. of Soc.
of Antiq. 2nd series_, _xii_ 142–3 (1888).
LEE, JOHN LEE (son of William Hanning _d._ 1834, by Harriet dau.
of Edward Lee). _b._ 11 Dec. 1802; educ. Westminster 1813–7,
matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 10 Feb. 1821; assumed name of Lee in place
of Hanning 1820; M.P. for Wells 1831–37; sheriff of Somerset
1845. _d._ Dillington park, Somerset 16 Aug. 1874.
LEE, JOHN YATE. _b._ 1801; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1828;
practised as a conveyancer; a comr. of bankrupts 1838; registrar
of Liverpool court of bankruptcy 28 Aug. 1844 to 31 Dec. 1869
when he retired on full salary; author of A treatise on the
evidence of abstracts of titles to real property 1843. _d._
Bebington, Cheshire 10 March 1876. _Law Times_, _lx_ 422 (1876).
LEE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1780; painted miniatures in enamel from the
life, and copied pictures in enamel; enamel painter to Princess
Charlotte of Wales 1818 and to the Duke of Sussex, painted
portraits of them, also of George IV. after Sir Thomas Lawrence;
exhibited 27 enamels at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1809–53. _d._
13 Stone st. Gravesend 26 Dec. 1859.
LEE, LAVATER. _b._ 1817; a vaulter in the circus company of Wm.
Batty at Portsmouth and Southampton 1840; performed at Lambeth
Baths, London, which Batty opened as the Olympic Arena, Nov.
1841; on his benefit night April or May 1842 he vaulted over
14 horses, threw a back somersault on a horse going at full
speed and turned 21 forward somersaults without the aid of a
spring-board. _d._ 17 Kersley st. Battersea, London 18 March
1891. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.
LEE, MATTHEW HENRY (4 son of Joseph Lee of Redbrook, Whitchurch,
Salop). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 28 May 1850 aged
18, scholar 1850–4, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; C. of Longsight,
Manchester 1856–7; C. of Morland near Penrith 1857–67; V. of
Hanmer, Flintshire 1867 to death, church burnt Feb. 1889 when
he rescued register and plate, church rebuilding at time of his
decease; a contributor to the Archæologia Cambrensis; edited
Diaries and letters of Philip Henry 1882. _d._ about 13 Dec.
1890.
LEE, RICHARD NELSON (younger son of lieut.-col. Richard Lee).
_b._ Kew 8 Jany. 1806; first acted in The Miller and his Man, at
private theatre, Rawstorne st. Islington; played as an amateur
at Deptford, then in ‘utility’ business at Royalty theatre;
acted with John Richardson the showman 1821; went on tour in
1821 with Gyngell the conjuror who _d._ 1833; performed as a
juggler at Adelphi and other London theatres 1822; played at
Surrey theatre, opening as harlequin, under Elliston 7 years
from 24 June 1827; wrote the pantomimes 1831–3 and played
harlequin at Adelphi theatre 1834–36; managed Sadler’s Wells
theatre for F. Osbaldiston 1836; proprietor with John Johnson
of ‘Richardson’s Show’ Oct. 1836, they promoted and organised
the fair in Hyde Park on the Queen’s coronation 28 June 1838;
they purchased Julius Haydon’s portable theatre Oct. 1838;
‘Richardson’s Show’ was burnt in a field at Dartford 1845
causing a loss of £1700, they began business with a new theatre
1847; they appeared at Greenwich fair for the last time 1852;
‘Richardson’s Show’ was sold by auction at Horsemonger lane,
Borough 1853, when the property was completely dispersed;
manager with J. Johnson of the Marylebone, of Pavilion, of
Standard 1845, of City of London 1849–63, sole lessee of City
of London 3 Oct. 1863 to 1868 when he sold it to Great Eastern
railway co. for £6000; author of The life of a fairy illustrated
by Alfred Crowquill 1850; wrote 209 pantomimes, all of which
were played. _d._ Shrubland road, Dalston 2 Jany. 1872. _bur._
Abney park cemetery 5 Jany. _T. Frost’s The Old Showman_ (1874)
247, 254, 320, 346–58; _The Mask_ (1868) 21, _portrait_;
_Illust. Sporting News_, _v_ 420 (1866), _portrait_.
NOTE.--His father lieut.-col. Lee was on duty at Nelson’s funeral
in St. Paul’s cathedral 9 Jany. 1806, this was probably Richard Lee
who died in India about 1811. The certificate of R. N. Lee’s baptism
could not be obtained as the registers from 1791 to 1845 were stolen
out of Kew church some years ago and have never been recovered. The
inscription on his tombstone in Abney Park cemetery is, To the memory
of Nelson Lee who departed this life January 2nd 1872 aged 65, also of
Amelia Lee his beloved wife who departed this life December 30th 1870
aged 53, also of Theresa Kate Lee youngest daughter of the above who
departed this life September 28th 1870 aged 17.
LEE, ROBERT. _b._ Tweedmouth, Northumberland 11 Nov. 1804; ed.
at Berwick-on-Tweed gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–34,
D.D. 1844; minister of St. Vigean’s presbyterian chapel of ease
at Arbroath, Forfarshire 1833, removed to parish of Campsie,
Stirlingshire 1836; minister of church and parish of Old
Greyfriars, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1843 to death, his church was
burnt down 19 Jany. 1845, preached in the Assembly Hall until
14 June 1857 when restored church opened, introduced stained
glass into some of the windows 1857 and the first organ used in
national church 22 April 1865; professor of biblical criticism
and antiquities in univ. of Edinb., dean of chapel royal
Holyrood and royal chaplain 17 Dec. 1846 to death; censured
by the presbytery 14 March 1866 and by the synod 7 May for
celebrating a marriage in his church 6 Dec. 1865; Isabella
Carrick his widow was granted a civil list pension of £100,
17 Nov. 1868; author of A handbook of devotion 1845; The Holy
Bible with about 60,000 marginal references and various readings
1854; Prayers for public worship 2 ed. 1858; Prayers for family
worship 1861, 3 ed. 1884; The family and its duties 1863; The
reform of the church of Scotland in worship, government and
doctrine. Part 1 Worship 1864. _d._ Torquay 12 March 1868.
_bur._ Grange cemetery, Edinb. 20 March. _R. H. Story’s Life
of R. Lee, D.D. 2 vols._ (1870), _portrait_; _Grant’s Story of
Univ. of Edinb. ii_ 461–64 (1884).
LEE, ROBERT (2 son of John Lee of Melrose, Roxburghshire).
_b._ Melrose 1793; entered univ. of Edinb. 1806, M.D. 1814;
L.R.C.P. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1841, Lumleian lecturer 1856–7, Croonian
lecturer 1862, Harveian orator 1864; physician to Prince
Woronzow governor general of the Crimea, Oct. 1824 to Dec. 1826;
obstetric phys. in London 1826–75; phys. to British lying-in
hospital 1827; lecturer on midwifery in the Webb st. school
1829; F.R.S. 25 March 1830; sec. to Royal med. and chir. soc.
1830–5; regius professor of midwifery, univ. of Glasgow 1834,
but resigned it after delivering his introductory address;
lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s hospital 1835–66; author
of On the structure of the human placenta and its connection
with the uterus 1832; Clinical Midwifery 1842, 2 ed. 1848; The
last days of Alexander and the first days of Nicholas, emperors
of Russia 1854; Three hundred consultations in midwifery 1864;
A treatise on hysteria 1871. _d._ 15 The Avenue, Surbiton Hill,
Surrey 6 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _R. Lee’s Memoirs
on the Ganglia and nerves of the uterus_ (1849); _Munk’s College
of physicians_, _iii_ 266–9 (1878); _Lancet_, _i_ 332–7 (1851),
_portrait_.
LEE, ROBERT (7 son of John Lee 1779–1859). _b._ Edinburgh
1830; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; member of Faculty of
advocates 1853; procurator for Ch. of Scotland 1869; sheriff
of Stirling and Dumbarton 1875; sheriff of Perthshire 1877;
judge of second division of the court of session, Edinb., with
title of Lord Lee, April 1880 to death. _d._ 12 Rothesay place,
Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1890.
LEE, SAMUEL. _b._ Longnor near Shrewsbury 14 May 1783;
apprenticed to a carpenter at Shrewsbury 1795; taught himself
Greek and Hebrew; teacher in Bowdler’s foundation school,
Shrewsbury; entered Queen’s coll. Camb. 1813, B.A. 1818, M.A.
1819, B.D. 1827, D.D. 1833; D.D. Halle 1822; professor of
Arabic in univ. of Camb. 11 March 1819–31, regius professor of
Hebrew 1831–48; chaplain of Cambridge gaol 1823; R. of Bilton
with Harrogate, Yorkshire 1825–31; preb. of Bristol cathedral
5 July 1831 to death; V. of Banwell, Somerset 1831–8; R. of
Barley, Herts. 1838 to death; a profound linguist, knew about
20 languages; author of A grammar of the Hebrew language 1827;
A brief enquiry into the question whether a christian can
object to pay tithes. Bristol 1832; The duties of observing the
christian sabbath 1833, 2 ed. 1834; Dissent unscriptural and
unjustiable 1834; A lexicon Hebrew, Chaldee and English 1840;
The doctrine of the keys 1846; An enquiry into the nature,
progress and end of prophecy 1849. _d._ Barley rectory 16 Dec.
1852, portrait by Richard Evans in public newsroom, Shrewsbury.
_Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _vol._ 5 (1834),
_portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _i_ 52
(1846), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxix_ 203–7 (1853).
LEE, SAMUEL. King of the gipsy tribe of the Lees. _d._ Little
Baddow hill, Essex 23 Sep. 1859 aged 86. _bur._ Little Baddow
ch. yard 27 Sep. when 16 gipsies attended the funeral.
LEE, SAMUEL (2 son of John Lee of Whitchurch, Salop). _b._ 1837;
ed. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1866; barrister L.I.
26 Jany. 1872; member of board of examiners to Inns of Court
1877–8 and 1881–3; member of Athenæum club; author of The works
of Virgil rendered into English prose, with introductions.
Globe edition 1871; author with J. Lonsdale of The works of
Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ 8 Tavistock place,
Tavistock sq. London 14 April 1892.
LEE, SARAH (only dau. of John Eglinton Wallis of Colchester).
_b._ Colchester 10 Sep. 1791. _m._ (1) 1813 Thomas Edward
Bowdich, naturalist, travelled with him in Africa 1815 and
1823, he _d._ Bathurst on the Gambia river 10 Jany. 1824;
she _m._ (2) about Oct. 1829 Robert Lee; studied Cuvier’s
collections in Paris 1818–22; termed herself a member of the
Wetteravian society; granted civil list pension of £50, 20 April
1854; author of The Freshwater fishes of Great Britain 1828,
12 parts, only four perfect copies are known, the plates of
fish by herself are exquisitely done; Memoirs of Baron Cuvier
1833; Adventures in Australia 1851, many editions; Anecdotes
of the habits and instincts of animals 1852; Sir Thomas or
the adventures of a Cornish baronet 1856; she also edited and
contributed to many works by her husband T. E. Bowdich. _d._ at
her daughter’s residence, Erith, Kent 22 Sep. 1856. _Literary
Gazette 11 Oct. 1856 p._ 784; _G.M. Nov. 1856 pp._ 653–4.
LEE, SMYTH. _b._ Devonport 1838; clerk in the stamp office,
Devonport; reporter on Western Daily Mercury, then on Western
Morning News; correspondent of The Era; on staff of Illustrated
Sporting News 15 March 1862 to death; wrote ‘Tom’s Wife’ acted
at the Surrey theatre, and ‘Great Sensation’ acted at Sadler’s
Wells. _d._ Tottenham court road, London 3 Feb. 1866. _bur._
Finchley 7 Feb. _Illust. Sporting News_, _v_ 78, 152 (1866),
_portrait_.
LEE, THOMAS (son of Mr. Lee of Dublin and the Haymarket,
London). _b._ Dublin 1 Dec. 1810; apprenticed to a goldsmith and
jeweller London 1823; played in Suil Dhur the Coiner at Sadler’s
Wells 1827; played in The Irish Tutor at Victoria theatre 1833
or 1834; acted in the provinces 1834–7; played at Sadler’s
Wells 1837; acted Pat Rooney in The Omnibus at Covent Garden 23
Oct. 1838; proprietor of Beckford’s Head tavern, 38 Old st. St.
Luke’s 1838–54; proprietor of The Adam and Eve, Eve’s terrace,
Old St. Pancras road 1854–6, and of the Hoop and Adze, 37 St.
John st. Clerkenwell 1856, where he _d._ 11 Aug. 1856. _Actors
by daylight_, _i_ 281–2 (1838), _portrait_; _Theatrical Times_,
_ii_ 153 (1847), _portrait_; _The Era 17 Aug. 1856 p._ 10.
LEE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; painter in water-colours of English
rustic figures and of scenes on the French coast; assoc. of
Instit. of Painters in water-colours 1845, a member 1848; member
and sec. of Langham Sketching club, All Souls’ Place, London;
exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1844–55;
published Classes of the capital, a sketch book of London life
from tinted studies by W. Lee 1841, two parts only. _d._ 177
Euston road, London 22 Jany. 1865. _Art Journal_ (1865) 139.
LEE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 2 July 1813, bencher 1845 to death,
reader 1858; Richard Bethel afterwards lord chancellor Westbury
was his pupil 1822; Q.C. Feb. 1845; a learned real property
lawyer, his opinion was much esteemed by the chancery judges;
often called upon by lord justice Knight-Bruce to give his
opinion as amicus curiæ; lacked business habits, which prevented
success in his profession. _d._ Brighton 7 July 1869. _Law Times
17 July 1869 p._ 262; _T. A. Nash’s Life of lord Westbury_, _i_
37–8, 43 (1888).
LEE, WILLIAM (son of Henry Lee). _b._ Lewisham, Kent 1801;
partner in firm of Lee, Son & Co., lime and cement merchants of
London and Rochester; contested Maidstone 8 July 1852 and 30
March 1857; M.P. Maidstone 1853–57 and 1859–70. _d._ Holborough
court near Rochester 29 Sep. 1881.
LEE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Lee, rector of Emly. _d._ Aug. 1835).
_b._ Newport, Tipperary 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Clonmel endowed sch.
1825–31 and Trinity college, Dublin; gained first or classical
scholarship 1834, junior fellow 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840,
B.D. and D.D. 1857; professor of ecclesiastical history in
univ. of Dublin 1857–63; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity
1863; R. of Arboe, Armagh 1862–4; exam. chaplain to abp. Trench
1863–4; archdeacon of Dublin 1864 to death; R. of St. Peter,
Dublin 1864 to death; member of convocation and of convention of
ch. of Ireland; member of new testament revision company Feb.
1870 to 1880; author of The inspiration of holy scripture, its
nature and proof 1854, 5 ed. 1882; Three introductory lectures
on ecclesiastical history 1858; Commentary on the Revelation of
St. John 1882, on which he had been working since 1864. _d._ 64
Merrion square south, Dublin 11 May 1883. _W. Lee’s University
Sermons. Dublin_ (1886), _memoir vii–xiv_.
LEE, WILLIAM (2 son of John Lee 1779–1859). _b._ 18 George
st. Edinburgh 6 Nov. 1817; ed. univ. of Edinb., D.D. 1868;
presbyterian minister at Roxburgh 1844–74; professor of
ecclesiastical history in univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1874 to death;
author of The increase of faith 1867, 2 ed. 1868; The days of
the Son of Man 1872; edited his father’s Lectures on the history
of the church of Scotland 2 vols. 1860; The autobiography of
Dr. Somerville of Jedburgh. _d._ 8 The College, Glasgow 10 Oct.
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