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LEE, SAMUEL, son of Rev. Richard Lee, London; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1660 (Chapter Muniments 43104); Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 20 Jul 1659; migrated to St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Sep 1660; BA 1664/5; ordained deacon and priest (Chichester) 17 Mar 1664/5.

LEE, PHILIP STIRLING, brother of Thomas Stirling Lee (qv); b. 24 Apr 1858; adm. 24 Jan 1871 (James'); left May 1874; surveyor, firm J. S. Lee & Sons, Craven Street, Strand, London; m. Mary Maud, dau. of Washington Single, South Woodford, Essex, Commissioner of Taxes; d. 13 Nov 1909.

Lee, Percy Erskine, son of John Lee, of Clapham Common; b. Feb. 19, 1882; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (H); left July 1899; Queen's Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1899; B.A. 1902; M.A. 1908; asst. master Dover Coll. 1906-15; ordained deacon 1912, priest 1914 (Canterbury); Chaplain of Dover Coll. 1912-5; Chaplain to the Forces July 30, 1915, 8th Infantry Brigade 1915-17, Sen. Chaplain 14th Div. 1917-8, D. A. C. G., 4th Corps, 1918-9; mentioned in despatches; Chaplain Ind. Eccles Estab. 1919; Hon. Canon of Calcutta 1934-7; Rector of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, 1936; m. Jan. 31, 1921, Mary Hilda, daughter of Lieut.-Col. Robert White Stevens, of Plymouth, Devon; d. Oct. 22, 1945.

LEE, NATHANIEL, son of Rev. Richard Lee DD, Rector of Hatfield, Herts. ; b. 1653; at school under Busby (Baker, Biog. Dram. , 1812, I, pt. ii, 448); went to Charterhouse Sch. ; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jul 1665, scholar 1668, matr. 1668; BA 1668/9; went on the stage, but failed as an actor and took to writing tragedies; Nero, his first play, was produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 1675; wrote plays Gloriana and Sophonisba 1676, of which the latter, with music by Purcell and a prologue by John Dryden (qv), was performed in the Tennis Court at Oxford during Commemoration Week Jul 1680; his best known tragedy, The Rival Queens, was produced in 1677; collaborated with Dryden on two plays 1679 and 1682; his last tragedy, Constantine the Great, was produced at the Theatre Royal in 1684; confined in Bethlem Hospital for lunacy, due to his intemperate habits, 1684-9; a collected edition of his tragedies was published in 1713; buried St. Clement Danes, London 6 May 1692. DNB.

LEE, MATTHEW, son of William Lee, Northampton; b. 1694; adm.; Min. Can. 1708; QS 1709; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1713, matr. 23 Jun 1713, aged 18, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1713 – Nov 1720, Faculty Student 18 Nov 1720 – void by marriage 7 Jul 1730; BA 1717; MA 1720; MB 1722; MD 1726; medical practitioner successively in Oxford and in London; MRCP 1731, FRCP 1732, Censor 1734, Harveian Orator 1736; Physician to Frederick, Prince of Wales, Oct 1741-51; by his will dated 27 Aug 1755 he bequeathed a large sum of money to Christ Church for the benefit of the Westminster Students, and also for the erection of a School of Anatomy and for the endowment of a Readership in Anatomy; m. 1730 Sarah, youngest dau. of John Knapp, Little Linford, Bucks.; d. 26 Sep 1755. DNB.

By his will dated 27 Aug 1755 (proved 8 Oct 1755) he left certain estates to the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, in trust for various purposes including exhibitions for the Westminster Students of Christ Church. The estates subsequently increased greatly in value, and the application of the income was altered more than once by decree of the Court of Chancery. By the ordinance attached to the Christ Church (Oxford) Ordinances Act 1867 £1260 of the annual income was directed to be applied, with other funds, towards the maintenance of the Westminster Junior Studentships at Christ Church.
For Lee’s bequest to Christ Church, Oxford, see E.G.W.Bill, op.cit., pp 104-5. The bequest to Christ Church amounted to approximately £30,000, out of which a fund of £50 was set up for the better support of the Westminster Students during the first year after their election, and Lee’s bequest also funded a number of exhibitions (four of which were specifically ‘mathematical’) for Westminster Students nominated by the Dean and Chapter. These “were worth £10 a year and were tenable for a maximum of eight years”, and were awarded to nearly every Westminster Student, and “from about 1786 the exhibitions were usually given some two years after matriculation”. The “Lee foundation was very wealthy” and the value of these exhibitions were increased to £30 a year in 1807.

LEE, KERBY; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jul 1724. [Perhaps brother or close kin to William Lee, adm. same month].

LEE, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1721/2; in under school list 1724.

LEE, JOHN LEE, eldest surviving son of William Hanning (qv); b. 11 Dec 1802; adm. 20 Jan 1813; Min. Can. 1817; left 12 Dec 1817; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Feb 1821; adm. Middle Temple 20 Jun 1823; assumed surname of Lee in lieu of Hanning 21 Mar 1825; MP (Whig) Wells 1830-7; DL JP Sopmerset, High Sheriff1845; m. 1st, 18 Feb 1834 Jessy Edwards, third dau. of John Edwards Vaughan MP, Rheola, Glamorgan; m. 2nd, 17 Aug 1841 Hon. Maria Sophia Hood, eldest dau. of Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (I); d. 16 Aug 1874.

LEE, JOHN HODGSON, eldest son of John Benjamin Lee (qv); b. 1 Oct 1846; adm. 7 Jun 1855; went to Marlborough Coll.; entered Royal Navy 1863; Sub-Lieut., 28 Mar 1866; Lieut., 1 Jun 1869; retd. 11 Apr 1872; m. 1st, 28 Jun 1878 Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Joseph Palmer, Christchurch, New Zealand; m. 2nd, Florence Attwood; d. 26 Apr 1909.

Lee, John Hilary, son of Alfred Eustace Lee, asst master Bradfield College, and Ethel Adah, d. of Capt. William Bishop Andrews MN, of Boscombe, Hants; b. 5 Jan. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (KS); left July 1929; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, BA 1932, MA 1939; asst master Ampleforth Coll. 1932-4, Blundell's Sch. 1934-46, head of Chemistry Felsted Sch. 1946-71; head of Physical Science Kingsway Sen. Sch. Amanzimtoti, Natal, 1972-3; Felsted Sch. (part time) 1974-7; m. 17 Apr. 1945 Audrey Evelyn Eugenie, d. of Capt. Thomas Singleton Tomlinson, Roy. Munster Fusiliers; d. 30 Sept. 2001.