Born on 16 December 1870, the second child and only son of the Rev William Lee, a Congregational minister and missionary, and his wife née Sargent, he was educated at Bedford School and Bishop's Stortford grammar school, taking his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which he entered with a preliminary science exhibition in 1889. He qualified first in the first class at the London MB examination in 1894, winning the gold medal and a university scholarship in obstetrics; he took the MD in 1896, and the Fellowship in 1897. Lee served as house-physician at St Bartholomew's, clinical assistant at Golden Square throat hospital, and assistant casualty surgeon at St Paul's Hospital for urinary diseases. He settled at Muswell Hill in north London, where he had a successful practice for many years. He also had consulting rooms in the City, at 35 Finsbury Pavement, and after the first world war at Clifford's Inn and finally in Pump Court, Middle Temple. Here he had a wide connection as medical adviser or examiner to William Deacon's Bank and to many large insurance companies; he was also medical examiner in London to the Shanghai municipal council. In early days he had been active in the volunteer movement. He married Miss Burton in 1906, and was survived by the two sons of this marriage, one of whom, Harold B Lee, became an FRCS. Lee died at 17 Princes Avenue, Muswell Hill, N10 on 9 August 1952, aged 81. Publications: Some points of interest in the Maidstone epidemic. *St Bart's Hosp Repts* 1897, 33, 93. Experiences of an Army doctor in England. *St Bart's Hosp J* 1900, 7, 134. A fatal case of dope poisoning [ie from the industrial doping of fabrics] *Lancet* 1916, 1, 24.