LEE (formerly HASSALL), Sir Richard (c.1545-1608), of Dane John, nr. Canterbury, Kent and the Savoy, Mdx.

b. c. 1545, illegit. s. of Sir Anthony Lee† (d.1549) of Quarrendon, Bucks. and Anne, da. of Richard Hassall of Hassall and Hankelow, Cheshire; half-bro. of Sir Henry Lee† and Robert Lee†.The Gen. n.s. viii. 231. m. (1) by 1582, Mary (d.1587), da. of John Blundell†, merchant, of London and Steeple Barton, Oxon., wid. of Sir Gerard Croker of Hook Norton, Oxon., 1s. d.v.p.; VCH Oxon. vi. 119; CSP Dom. Addenda, 1580-1625, p. 63; M. Dickins, Hook Norton, 60, 164. (2) 1589, Alice (bur. 24 Apr. 1592), Canterbury Cathedral (Harl. Soc. Reg. ii), 112. da. of Sir Thomas Kempe† of Olantigh, Wye, Kent, wid. of Sir James Hales of Dane John, s.p. HMC 9th Rep. i. 158. Kntd. 1 June 1600. Letters of Philip Gawdy ed. I.H. Jeayes, 98; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 98. d. 22 Dec. 1608. W.R. Williams, Parl. Hist. Oxon. 198.