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* LEE. 77 JjEE. Lee remained in Eichmond until June, 1865, when be retired to a quiet country place. In Octiiber of llie same year he was installed as president of Washington College at Lexington, Va., now asliington and Lee University. The five years of his service were marked by steady re- cuperation from the utter desolation of the war. New chairs were founded, the scheme of study was enlarged, and from the moral side it would have lieen impossible to secure Uner results. In 1870 his health began to fail and a visit to the farther South was tried with only tempo- rary results. On the morning of October 12th he died. Lee ranks as the greatest of the South- ern commanders, his humane conduct through- out the war and the magnanimous way in which he stood defeat and urged the Southern people loyally to accept the result having contributed greatly to his fame. Consult: Cooke, The Life of liobert E. Lee (New York, 1871) ; Long, Mem- oirs of Robert E. Lee (New York, 1886) ; Fitz- hugh Lee, Ifohert E. Lee (New Y'ork. 1894), in the "Great Commanders Series;" White, Robert E. Lee { New York, 1897 ), in the "Heroes of the Nations Series;" and a sketch by Trent, Robert E. Lee (Boston, 1899), one of the "Beacon Biog- raphies." LEE, Sami-el (1783-1852). An English Orientalist. He was born at Longnor, in Shrop- shire, and graduated at Queen's College. Cam- bridge, in 1817. Two years afterwards he was chosen Arabic professor in the same university; was regius professor of Hebrew from 1831 to 1848 : and at the time of his death was rector of Barley, Hertfordshire. His flrammar of the 11 f brew Lantjuage (1830); his Book of Job, Translated from the Orirjimil Hebrew (1837); his Hebrew, Chaldaic, and English Lexicon (1S40), and several other works won for him a higli reputation. LEE, S.MrEL PHILIP.S (1812-97). An Ameri- can naval oflicer. born in Fairfax County, Va. He entered tlic United States Na-T as a mid- shipman in 1825. In 1862, as commander of the Oneida, he participated in the capture of New Orleans by Farragut and in other operations on the .Mississippi. In July of the same year he was commissioned captain, and was put in com- mand of the North Atlantic Blockading Squad- ron. In the summer of 1864 he was transferred to the command of the Mississippi Squadron. He was conuuissioned commodore in 1866, and rear-admiral in 1870. when he was put in com- mand of the North Atlantic fleet. He retired in 187.5. LEE, Sidney (1859—). An English scholar, born in London. December 5, 1859. He was edu- cated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1883 he became assistant editor of the Dictionarj/ of yational Biof/raph;/ ; and on the retirement of Leslie Stephen (q.v. ) in 1891 he was appointed editor-in-chief. Under his supervision appeared the last thirty-seven vol- umes. To the great work he contributed eight hundred and twenty articles, or three vol- umes. He is most favorably known for Strnt- fordon-Avon from the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare (1885: new ed. 1800) : a concise J.ife of Hhnkesprare (1898: abridged for the use of students. 1000) : .1 lAfe of Queen Victoria (1902): Faesimilr Reprint of Shake- speare's First Folio (1902) ; and his Shakespeare First Folio Facsimile, icith Introduction and Cen- sus of Extant Copies (1902). He has also edited Lord Berner's translation of Huon of Bordeaux (1883-85) and the Autobiography of Lord Her- bert of Cherbury ( 1880). In 1903 he visited the United States, lecturing in Boston and at the chief universities. LEE, Soi>iii. (1750-1824). An English nov- elist and dramatist, born in London. She was the daughter of John Lee, the actor, who was well known as a theatrical manager and a player of Shakespearean roles. Her first success, a five- act comedy, entitled The Chapter of Accidents, was played and publi.shed in 1780. The profits of the venture enabled her to establish a ladies' seminaiy in Bath, which was speedily successful through her abilities as a teacher and the charm of her companionship, and which she continued to conduct until 1803. In 1785 she published The Recess, or a Tale of Other Times, which is among the first specimens of historical fiction in Eng- lish, and in 1796 her traged}' Almeyda, Queen of Grenada, was played with Mrs. Siddons and Charles Kemble in the cast, but proved a failure. Her best-known work was done in collaboration with her sister Harriet Lee (q.v.), to whose Can- terbury Tales she contributed two stories entitled The Young Lady's Tale and The Clergyman's Tale. Her other works include: The Hermit's Tale (1787) ; The Life of a Lover (1804) ; The Assignation ( 1807 ). LEE. Verxon. The nom-de-plume of the Eng- lish writer Violet Paget. LEE, WiLLi.Mi ( ?-e.l610). An English stock- ing-weaver, born probably in Calverton. Notting- liamshire. He was educated at Oxford, took orders, and afterwards had a living at Calverton. In this town he invented his stocking-frame, and started a small manufactory. There was some interest taken in the invention by Queen Elizabeth and .James I., but they were too con- servative to consider it seriously, and Lee, having received much encouragement from Henry IV., went to France and set up his frames at Kouen. Here he worked with great success. After his death, which occurred soon after the assassina- tion of Henry IV., Lee's workmen returned to England, and brought the valuable invention back with them. LEE, WiLLi.^M (1737-95). One of the repre- sentatives of the United States in Europe during the American Revolution; the fifth son of Thomas Lee and the brother of Richard Henrv Lee. Fran- cis Lightfoot I.ee, and Arthur Lee. He was bom in Stratford. Va., but some time before the Revo- lutionary War took up his residence as a mer- chant in London, where he acted as the agent of the Colony of Virginia for a time, and in 1773 was elected sherifT of Middlesex. He was an ar- dent partisan of Wilkes, and in 1775 was elected on the Wilkes ticket alderman of London, which position he held, nominally, until Janiarv, 1780. In .June. 1777, he joined Thomas Morris in super- intending the mercantile affairs of the United States .It Nantes, and for a time had virtually entire charge of the commercial interests of the I'nited States in France. On May 9. 1778. he was appointed by Congress a commissioner to the courts of Vienna and Berlin, but remained in Paris for nearly a year after receiving his com- mission, and sub.seqiiently lived at Frankfort, Germanv. but accomplished nothing. In .Septem- ber, 1778, he drew up. with Jan Neufville, an