LEE, SAMUEL PHILIPS, Rear-Admiral U.S.N.; h. Va., 1812; entered the navy as midshipman in 1825; was appointed lieut. in 1837, commander in 1855, cape 'in 1862, comModore in 1866, and rear-admiral in 1870. He rendered important aid in the capture of New Orleans during the war of the rebellion, being at that time in command of the North Atlantic blockading squadron. In 1864-65 he commanded the 3lississippi squadron; 1866-67 he was president of the board to examine volunteer officers for admission to the navy; 1868-70, chief signal officer; commander of the North Atlantic fleet 1870-73, when he retired from active service.
LEE, Sorrun, 1750-1824; b. London; daughter of an actor, and at 30 years of ago wrote a comedy, The Chapter of Accidents, the profits of which enabled her to establish at Bath a seminary for young ladies, which was conducted for many years by her with the aid of her sister HARRIET, whose name is inseparably connected with her own in the authorship of The Canterbury Tales. Sophia, besides writing most of those tales, was the author of two novels and a tragedy that won a moderate success. Her second
comedy was not so fortunate.
LEE, Tnomns, b. Va., about the beginning of the 18th c.; the third son of Richard, member of the council, and grandson of Richard, the cavalier founder of the family in America, who took an active part with Berkeley in the allegiance of the colony to the Stuarts. Thomas succeeded to the ancestral estate at Stratford, West moreland co. He became president of the council. and has commission as governor had just been signed, when he died. in 1750. By his wife Hannah, daughter of col. Philip Ludwell, a member of time council, he had six sons, all of whom were distinguished for public services rendered during the revolutionary war. WILLIAM, the fifth son, went to England as agent of Virginia, was elected sheriff of London in 1773 and alderman in 1775. He was afterwards diplomatic agent of the United States at the Hague, Vienna, and Berlin. He was recalled in 1779, and died at Green Spring, Va., June 27,1795.