LEE, SIR Sidney (formerly SoLostox LAZ ARus ) , English author and editor: b. London, 5 Dec. 1859. He was educated at the city of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford, from which he was graduated in 1882. In 1883 he became assistant editor of the (Dictionary of National Biography,' in 1890 joint editor with Sir Leslie Stephen, and on the retirement of the latter in 1891 was appointed editor-in chief. Under his editorship appeared the last 37 volumes (Vols. XXVII-LXIII, 1891-1901), together with two supplements (6 vols.) and the 'Index and Epitome.' To this work he contributed 820 articles. His 'Memoir on King Edward VII,' contributed to the 'Second Supplement,' provoked a storm of controversy, hisportrayal of that monarch not being re garded by many critics as sufficiently eulogistic. He was Clark lecturer in English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1901-02, Lowell Institute lecturer at Boston in 1903, and lecturer for the Common'University Fund at Oxford in 1909. He was knighted in 1911, and in 1913 was appointed professor of English language and literature in the University of London. He has published 'Stratford-on Avon from the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare' (1885; new ed., 1906) ; Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography, with a Continuation of his Life' (1886; new ed., 1906); 'A Life of William Shakespeare' (1898; popular ed., 1900, 1907; rev. and re written, 1915) ; (A Life of Queen Victoria' (1902; new ed., 1904) ; First Folio Facsimile, with Introduction, and Cen sus of Extant Copies' (1902) ; Sonnets' (1904) ; (Great Englishmen of the 16th Century' (1904) ; 'Shakespeare's Poems and PericleP (1905)• 'Shakespeare and the Modern Stage' (1906) ; (America and Eliza bethan England,' in Scribner's Magazine (1907) ; French Renaissance in Eng land' (1910) ; of Biography,' Cambridge Lecture (1911); and the Italian Renaissance,' British Academy Shakespeare Lecture (1915) ; 'The Life of William Shakespeare' (1916).
LEE, Sophia, English author: b. London, May 1750; d. Clifton, near Bristol, 13 March 1824. She was the eldest daughter of John Lee, an actor. She was the author of a comedy en titled Chapter of Accidents,' brought out at Haymarket Theatre in 1780 with great suc cess. The next year her father died and she removed with her sisters to Bath, where she de voted the profits of her play to the establish ment of a young ladies' seminary over which she and her sister Harriett (q.v.) long pre
sided. She wrote two or three novels and contributed 'The Young Lady's Tale' and Clergyman's Tale' to the Tales,' published• by herself and her sister.
LEE, Stephen Dill, American soldier : b. Charleston, S. C., 22 Sept. 1833; d. Vicksburg, Miss., 28 May 1908. He was graduated from West Point in 1854; served on the frontiers of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska; was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in 1856 and served in Florida in 1857. On the secession of South Carolina he resigned from the United States army and was made captain of South Carolina volunteers, and gradually rose from this rank to that of lieutenant-general. He was at Seven Pines, at the Seven Days' Battles around Rich mond, in the campaign against Pope and at the second battle of Bull Run. He was placed in command of the forces at Vicksburg, but was succeeded, by General Pemberton before the capture of the city by the Federals. After the war he settled at Columbus, Miss. He was elected to the State senate in 1870 and was a prominent member of the Constitutional Con vention in 1890. 111'1880 he was made president of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege at Starkeville, holding this position till 1899, when he became commissioner of the Vicksburg National Park He was president of the United Confederate Veteran Associa tion after 1904.
LEE, Thomas George, American profes sor of anatomy: b. Jacksonville, N. Y., 27 Nov. 1860. He was educated at the universities of Pennsylvania, Wiirzburg, Harvard and Munich, and in 1884-86 he was assistant professor of histology and embryology at the University of Pennsylvania. He was lecturer and director of the laboratory at Yale in 1886-91 and as sistant professor of histology at Radcliffe in 1891-92. In 1892 he went to the University of Minnesota as professor of embryology and histology, became professor of anatomy and director of the Institute of Anatomy in 1909, and since 1913 he has been professor of com parative anatomy there. He is associate editor of the Anatomical Record and has written several monographs on the embryology of vertebrates.