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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, June 27, 1785. S. of the Rev. Francis, of Wyresdale, Lancs. B. May, 1766, in Lancaster. Schools, Lancaster and Sedbergh. ' Matric. Michs. 1785; Scholar, 1788; B.A. 1789; M.A. 1792. Ord. deacon (Chester) Sept. 20, 1789; priest (Lichfield and Coventry, Litt. dim. from Winchester) June 3, 1792; C. of Wyresdale, 1789. Chaplain to the Prince Regent. Married, 1804, Catherine Ball, from whom, however, he was soon separated, and in 1810 obtained a verdict with £500 damages against the Hon. Major Blacquiere; on Dec. 5, 1811, obtained a divorce in the Court of Arches. At the trial, Mr Park, the defendant's counsel, animadverted in strong terms of censure against Mr Lee, who it seems had carried off Miss Ball unknown to her friends, although he was old enough to be her father. Author, English translations in poetry and prose from the Greek poets and prose authors; Poetical translations from Hesiod; The Odes of Pindar, translated; etc. Shot himself whilst dangerously insane, in 1826. (Sedbergh Sch. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 354; G. Mag., 1826, II. 92.)