Born at Sydney in 1897, son of an architect and builder, he was educated at New Gisborne and Ballairy state schools, his parents moving into the country in Victoria when he was nine. He won a government scholarship to Geelong College in 1911, where he was dux in 1915; he was a scholar of Ormond College, Melbourne University 1916-19 and graduated with second-class honours in 1920. He served as demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Queensland Medical School, took the MD at Melbourne in 1922 and came to England. He was casualty and obstetric house surgeon at St George's 1922-23 and resident surgical officer at the North Staffordshire Infirmary, Stoke-on- Trent 1924-25. Returning to practise at Brisbane he was appointed surgeon to Brisbane Hospital in 1926 and surgeon to the Brisbane Clinic when it opened in 1930. He served during the war of 1939-45 with the rank of Major AAMC as visiting surgeon to 112 Army General Hospital and became consulting surgeon to the Repatriation Hospital, Brisbane. Lee was active in the British Medical Association for more than thirty years, was twice President of the Queensland branch and a member of the Federal Council 1942-59, and was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1961. He was opposed to the free health policy of the Queensland government and worked hard for what he considered the more responsible policy of organised private health insurance. From his personal connections with all three Eastern States he took a broad Commonwealth view of medical and health problems and in particular of health education. He served on many voluntary public bodies and was chairman of the Queensland committees of both the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia. He represented Australia at the British Commonwealth Medical Congresses at Brisbane (1950) and Calcutta (1952), at the annual meeting of the B.M.A. at Torquay (1960) and the 14th WMA meeting in Berlin (1960). Lee died suddenly while addressing the assembly of the Australian Medical Association on 3 May 1963 and was survived by his wife, daughter and two sons, one of them a surgeon. Publication: *An Introduction to Abdominal Diagnosis*. Australasian Medical Publ Co 1951.