Lady Lee
(1812-1899)
23 April 1862
Volume 6, page 231, sitting number 7795.
[Identified as ‘Lady Lee’ in the Silvy daybooks, this is almost certainly the wife of Sir George Lee.]
Born in or about 1812 in Tottenham, Charlotte Ede was the daughter of John Ede and his wife Mary née Furlonger.
On 10 October 1843 at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, she married George Philip Lee of 42 Bryanston Square, son of Edward Lee, Esq.
The following year ‘the honour of knighthood [was conferred’ upon George Philip Lee, Esq., Lieutenant of her Majesty’s Guard of Yeoman of the Guard’ (Hampshire Advertiser, 16 March 1844).
The couple appear on the 1851 living at 24 Norfolk Crescent, Bayswater, with their daughter Alice (6), and their sons Philip Edward (5) and Arthur Morier (4). Also present on the night of the census where seven servants, including a butler and a footman.
When the 1861 census was taken, the family were living at 28 Bryanston Square, Marylebone. The household now included six servants, still with a butler and a footman. George gave 'Knight and Landed Proprietor' as his profession.
In November 1862 a local newspaper reported: ‘WINDLESHAM —Sir George and Lady Lee will shortly take up their residence in their mansion at Larchmont, which has been recently rebuilt, in the Gothic style, by Messrs. Trollope and Sons, of Parliament-street, and is now nearly complete’ (West Surrey Times, 15 November 1862).
Sir George Lee died on 1 September 1870 at Windlesham Court, Bagshot, Surrey. He left an estate valued at £60,000.
‘The death is announced of Sir George Philip Lee, who was formerly a Lieutenant of the Yeoman of the Guard. He was knighted in 1844’ (Berkshire Chronicle, 10 September 1870).
Lady Lee died on 29 December 1899 at 28 Bryanston Square, Marylebone. She left an estate valued at £60,931.
‘BAGSHOT — The death, on December 29th, is announced of Lady Lee, widow of Sir George P. Lee, of Windlesham Court. She was the daughter of the late Mr John Ede. Mr Lee was knighted in 1844, and died in 1870’ (Reading Mercury, 6 January 1900).
[From an album compiled by Lady Augusta Frances Hoare, wife of Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th Baronet.]