LEE, NATHANIEL (e.1653-92). An English dramatic. poet. Ile graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1668, and was then for a time an actor. but soon retired and devoted himself to the writing of tragedies. Ile first attracted at tention in 11377, by his Rival Queens, in which oceurred the well-known lines, "When Greeks join'd Greeks than Was the tug of war" The work won high praise from Dryden, who was later associated with Lee in writing Thu Duke of thrise (16S2). In HIS I, however, Lee became insane, and lie was confined in a lunatic asylum for four years. Clain his release he again devoted himself to literary work. Among the most popular of Lee's works, most of treated subjeets from classical history, are Theodosius, If ithridales. and Lucius Junius Brutus.
LEE, IncitAan IlExtty (1732-94). A patriot of the American Ilevoluthtn, lie was born at Stratford, Westmoreland County, Va., January 20, 1732, the son of Thomas Leo, who was president of the Virginia Council and a mem ber of the Ohio Company. After reepiving some preliminary education at home, the son was placed in school at Wakefield. England, where he remained until 1752. when lie returned to Vir ginia and made his home with his elder brother. Taking an active interest in public affairs, Rich ard Henry Lee early became a justice of the peace for his native county, and was elected to the lionise of Burgesses of Virginia at a time when his lirotInn. Thou was a member of the Legisla tive Connell. In t766, when the Legislature was taking action with reference to the 'Declaratory Act' of Parliament, lie drafted the address to the King and also the memorial to the House of Lords. In 1773 lie Was appointed by the Legis lature a member of the Virginia Committee of Correspondence, and in the following year was sent to the first Continental Congress. As a mem ber of that body he drafted a number of inmorlant public papers, including the petition to the King, and a member of the second Continental Congress he prepared the address to the inhabi tants of Great Britain. He contributed largely to the inure difficult work of that body, being rec ognized throughout as one of the really influenthil leaders of the revolutionary movement, and finally hemming famous by his motion of June 7. 1771; (adopted July 2d), that "these united Colonies are, aml of right might to be, free and independent States; and that all political con nection them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
With the decline of the prestige and power of Congress. Lee, as did other of the lead ing political workers, devoted more of his time to the affairs of his own State, Serving in its Legislature from 1780 until 1784. Ile returned to Congress in the fall of 1784, and was then elected president of that body. In 1786 lie Was a member of the Virginia Legislature and in 1787 he was a member both Of that body and of the National Congress. To the new Federal Constitution be was opposed, and after its adoption he was elected. by the Anti-Federalists, to the Senate, where he served until the condition of his health caused his resignation in 1792. At that time, however, lie had become a supporter of Washington and of the new Constitution, but his resignation from the Senate was followed by his retirement from public life, and lie died two years thereafter, June 19, 1714, at his home, Chantilly, in his native county of Westmoreland. Lee possessed great powers as an orator. Ilk grandson. R. 11. Lee, viblished Life and Corre spond:•e of Richard Henry Lee (2 vols., Phila delphia, 1825) .
LEE, Itoncer (1804-68). A Scotch clergyman. De was born at Tweedmouth, England, November 11, 1804; educated at the University of Saint Andrews; ordained a minister of tin. Scottish Church in 1332; settled at Arbroath in 183:3. and at Campsie in 1836. When the Church of Scot land was divided by the secession, he renmined with the Established Church, was called to the pastorate of the Old Grey Friars' Church in Edinburgh, and took it prominent part in the controversies that ensued. In 1846 be was ap pointed regius professor of biblieal criticism in the University of Edinburgh, and in 1354 pub lished the great work of his life. The Holy Bible, with about 60,000 il(irginal References and Vari ous Readings, •erised anti improred. In 1859 he was charged with introducing in public worship liturgical forms and postures unknown to the Church of Scotland; the fact being that lie had published a volume of Prayers for Public Wor ship (1357) and used the same in his own church. lie defended himself with such power and eloquence that his accusers were defeated. In 1861 lie published The Reform of the Church of Ncalland in. Worship, Corernment, and DO• trine. Ile died at Torquay, England, March 14, 1868. Consult his Life by Story (Edinburgh, 1870).