Family and Education
b. bef. 1548, illegit. s. of Sir Anthony Lee of Quarrendon, Bucks. by Ann, da. of Richard Hassall of Hassall and Hankelow, Cheshire; half-bro. of Sir Henry and Robert Lee. m. (1) Mary, da. of John Blundell of Finmere and Steeple Barton, Oxon., wid. of Sir Gerald Croker of Hook Norton, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) 1589, Alice, da. of Sir Thomas Kempe of Olantigh, Wye, Kent, wid. of Sir James Hales of Dane John, Canterbury. Kntd. 1 June 1600.E. K. Chambers, Sir Henry Lee , 23, 175-6; Genealogist, n.s. viii. 232; xii. 191; PCC 23 Coode; HMC 7th Rep. 527; HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, ii. 466; Bucks. Recs. vols. iii, iv.
Offices Held
Freeman, Canterbury 1590, common councilman by 1593; j.p. Kent from c. 1591, q. from c. 1592; constable, Harlech castle 1600; ambassador to Russia 1600 – 01; ranger of Canterbury park by 1604.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Hook Norton, Oxon and Dane John, Canterbury and the Savoy, London.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
LEE, Richard (bef. 1548-1608)
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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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