Methodist General Conference in 1844; edited the True ^ islcifdit, llio oryan of the new denoiniii.a- tion ; bccaiiie president of Michigiin I'nion Col- lege at Leoni, Jlitli., in 1850; and in 1804 was made prufes>iir in Adrian College, -Michigan. In 1807 he returned lo the Jlelhodist Episcopal Church. Among his writings are: Unitcrmlisiii ICxamiiH-d (Did Uvfulvd (18.30); iSlami-y in the Light of the IS'Mc (1855) ; and Elements of The- oloijy ( 185G).
LEE, Nathaniel. (c.1G53-92). An English
dramatic poet, lie graduated at Trinity College,
Cambridge, in 1008, and was then for a time an
actor, hut soon retired and devoted himself to
the writing of tragedies. He first attracted at-
tention in 1()T7, by his Rival Qiiccnx, in which
occurred the well-known lines. "When Greeks
joinM (1 recks then was the fug of war." The
work won high praise from Dryden. who was later
associated with Lee in writing The Duke of (liiisc
(1082). In 1084, however, Lee became insane,
and he was confined in a lunatic asylum for four
years. Upon his release he again devoted himself
to literary work. Among the most po])uhir of
Lee's works, most of which treated subjects from
classical history, are Thcodosius, Milhridates,
and Lucius Junius lirutus,
LEE, Richard Henry (1732-94). A patriot
of the American Itevolution. He was born at
Stratford, Westmoreland County, Va., .January
20, 1732, the son of Thomas Lee, who was
president of the Virginia Council and a mem-
ber of the Ohio Comjjany. After receiving
some preliminary education at home, the son wag
placed in school at Wakelield, England, where
he remained until 1752, when he returned to Vir-
ginia and made his home with his elder brother.
Taking an active interest in public alTairs. Uich-
ard Henry Lee early became a justice of the peace
for. his native county, and was elected to the
House of IJurgesses of Virginia at a time when
his brother Thomas was a member of the Legisla-
tive Council. In 1700. when the Legislature was
taking action with reference to the 'Declaratory
Act' of Parliament, he drafted the address to
the King and also the memorial to the House of
Lords. In 1773 he 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 important
public jiapers, including the petition to the
King, and as a member of the second Continental
Congress he prepared the address to the inhabi-
tants of (ireat liritain. He oontribiited largely
to the more ditTieult work of that body, being rec-
ognized throiighout as <me of the really influential
leaders of the revolutionary moement, and
finally becoming famous bj- his motion of June
7. 1776 (adopted July 2d"), that "these united
Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and
independent States; and that all political con-
nection between them and the State of Great
Britain is. and ought to be. totally dissolved."
With the decline of the ]irestige and power
of Congress, I^e. 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. He returned
to Congress in the fall of 1784. and was then
elected president of that body. In 1786 he 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 he 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 17112. At
that time, however, he had become a supporter
of Washington and of the new Constitution, but
his resignation from the Senate was followed by
his retirement from pul)lic life, and he died two
years thereafter, June 19, 1794, at his home,
Chantilly. in his native county of Westmoreland.
I-ee possessed great powers as an orator. His
grandson, R. 11. Lee, .juiblished Life tind Corre-
Sjiondrnce of lliehurd Henry Lee (2 vols., Phila-
delphia, 1825).
LEE, KoiiEitx (1804-(58). A Scotch clerg>man.
He was born at Tweedmouth, England, Xoveniber
11, 1804; educated at the L'niversity of Saint
Andrews; ordained a minister of the Scottish
Church in 1832; .settled at Arbroath in 1833, and
at Campsie in 1830. When the Church of Scot-
land w.as divided by the secession, he remained
with the Established Church, was called to the
pastorate of the Old Grey Friars' Church in
Edinburgh, and took a prominent part in the
controversies that ensued, in 1840 he was ap-
pointx-d regius professor of biblical criticism
in the University of Edinburgh, and in 1854 pub-
lished the great work of his life. The lloli/ Bible,
with about 60.000 Marginal References and Vari-
ous Readings, revised and improved. In 1859 he
was charged with intro<lucing in public worship
liturgical forms and postures unknown to tlie
Church of Scotland; the fact being that he had
published a volume of I'raycrs for I'ublie ^Yur-
shij) (1857) and used the same in his own
church. He defended himself with such power
and eloquence that his accusers were defeated.
In 1804 he ])ublished The Reform of the Chun h
of SScoiland in- ^Yorship, Government, and Dor.
trine. He died at Tonpiay, England, ilarch 14,
1808. Consult his Life hv Story (Edinburgh,
1870).
LEE, Robert Edward (1807-70). A distin-
gtiished American soldier, commander-in-chief of
the armies of the Confederate States of .
ierii:i.
He was born in Westmoreland Comitv, V:i.. January 19. 1807. His father was 'Light Hor-^ Harry' Lee, a distinguished cavalry leader in the Revolutionary War; his mother, Anne Hall Carter. In 1811 his father removed to Alex- andria, in Fairfax County. He entered West Point in 1825, on an appointment secured for him by Gen. .Andrew .Tackson. and by his dili- gence and ability graduated in 1829 second in his. class. From this time until 1834 be was in the Engineer Corps, with the rank of second lieuten- ant. In 1831 he married !Mary Randolph Custi-. the granddaughter of Martha Washington. In 1834 he became assistant to the chief engineer of the army in Washington; three years later he superintended improvements at Saint Louis, and in 1842 he took charge of the defenses in New York Harbor, where he remained until the oul break of the Mexican War, in 1840. In 1838 he had been made a captain.
In the Mexican War he was first with General ' Wool, for whom he did excellent scouting. Transferred at the personal reqiiest of Gener.il Scott to the army before Vera Cruz, he arranged the batteries so that the town was reduced in a week. After each of the battles of Cerro Gordo, , Churubusco, and Chapultepec, he received pro
