LEE, Frederick Richard. b. Barnstaple 1799; ensign 56 foot 6 Dec. 1813, placed on h.p. 21 Dec. 1815; served in the Netherlands; studied painting at the R.A. 1818; exhibited 171 paintings at R.A., 131 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; his most popular works were English landscapes; 4 of his pictures are in the National Gallery; A.R.A. 1834, R.A. 1838, retired R.A. 1871. d. Vlees farm, Herman station in division of Malmsay, South Africa 5 June 1879. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 159–61 (1862); Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 85–8.
LEE, George Alexander (son of Henry Lee, pugilist and landlord 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).