Lee of Fareham, Viscount (Arthur Hamilton Lee), 1868-1947

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Born, Bridport, 1868; educated at Cheltenham College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; joined the Royal Artillery 1888; served in China, earning high commendation from the War Office, 1889-1890; Professor of Strategy and Tactics, Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada, 1893-1898; organised Military Survey of the Canadian Frontier, 1894-1896; appointed British military attach with the US Army during the Spanish-American war, 1898; honorary member of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and became a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt; military attach in Washington, USA, 1899; returned to England and retired from the army, 1900; Conservative MP for Fareham, Hampshire, 1900-1918; joined the Board of Admiralty as a civil lord, 1903-1905; introduced and promoted the White Slave Traffic Act through Parliament, 1912; rejoined the army as a colonel on the staff, 1914; detailed for special service with the Expeditionary Forces and mentioned in despatches twice; Parliamentary Military Secretary, Ministry of Munitions, 1915-1916; knighted, 1916 (KCB); Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War (Lloyd George), 1916; Director-General of Food Production, 1917-1918, in recognition of his work made Baron Lee of Fareham; Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1919-1921; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1921-1922; British Delegate to the Washington Conference on reduction and limitation of arms, 1921-1922; Viscount, 1922; presided over three Royal Commissions, the Civil Service in India, 1923-1924, London Cross-River Traffic, 1926, and Police Powers and Procedure, 1928; Chairman of the Radium Commission and Trustee of the National Radium Fund 1929-1933; President of Cheltenham College, 1917-1940; Trustee of the Wallace Collection, 1924; Trustee of the National Gallery, 1926-1933, 1941-1947 (chairman 1931 and 1932); member of the Royal Fine Art Commission, 1926 and Deputy Chairman, 1940; member, Executive Committee of National Art Collections Fund; Chairman, Management Committee of the Courtauld Institute of Art, 1932-1937; Chairman, Warburg Library and Institute, 1933-1945; restored and furnished the Chequers Estate, which he gave to the Nation, 1921; bequeathed his art collection to the Courtauld Institute of Art; died, Gloucestershire, 1947. Publications: The English Heritage Series joint editor (Longmans & Co, London, 1929-)

From the guide to the LEE, Arthur Hamilton, Viscount Lee of Fareham (1868-1947), [1878-1954], (Courtauld Institute of Art)

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referencedIn The Jellicoe Papers, 1893-1936 British Library: Western Manuscripts
referencedIn Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969. Papers, 1867-2005. Harvard University Art Museum
creatorOf LEE, Arthur Hamilton, Viscount Lee of Fareham (1868-1947), [1878-1954] Courtauld Institute of Art
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associatedWith Astor, Lady, Nancy Witcher, 1879-1964 person
associatedWith Balcon, Sir, Michael, 1896-1977 person
associatedWith Baldwin, Stanley, 1867-1947, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, statesman person
associatedWith Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930, 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman person
associatedWith Boase Thomas Sherrer Ross 1898-1974 person
associatedWith British Museum corporateBody
associatedWith Chamberlain, Anne, d 1967 person
associatedWith Chamberlain, Arthur Neville, 1869-1940 person
associatedWith Christie's corporateBody
associatedWith Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer, 1885-1977 person
associatedWith Churchill, Sir, Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965 person
associatedWith Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie, 1903-1983 person
associatedWith Constable, William George, 1887-1976 person
associatedWith Conway Hall, London corporateBody
associatedWith Courtauld Institute of Art corporateBody
associatedWith Courtauld, Samuel, 1876-1947 person
associatedWith Duveen, Joseph, 1869-1939, 1st Baron Duveen person
associatedWith Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969. person
associatedWith George, David Lloyd, 1863-1945, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, statesman person
associatedWith George, Frances, Lloyd, 1912-1945 person
associatedWith Haig, Douglas, 1861-1928, 1st Earl Haig, Field Marshal person
associatedWith Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 person
associatedWith Kitson, Sir, Gerald Charles, 1856-1950 person
associatedWith Lee Arthur Hamilton 1868-1947 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham, statesman person
associatedWith Maccoll, Dugald Sutherland, 1859-1948 person
associatedWith Macdonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 person
associatedWith Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York corporateBody
associatedWith Ostrer, Isidore, d 1975 person
associatedWith Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968 person
associatedWith Radium Commission corporateBody
associatedWith Roosevelt, Edith Kermit, 1861-1948 person
associatedWith Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 person
associatedWith Sitwell, Sir, Francis Osbert Sacheverell, 1892-1969, 5th Baronet, author person
associatedWith Sutherland, Graham Vivian, 1903-1980 person
associatedWith Sykes, Sir, Mark, 1879-1919, 6th Baronet, MP and traveller person
associatedWith Victoria and Albert Museum corporateBody
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White Lodge Richmond Park Richmond Surrey England
Richmond upon Thames London England
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