Edward Henry Lee (1663 - 1716)

Born 4 Feb 1663 in Buckinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Charlotte (Fitzroy) Lee — married 6 Feb 1677 in England

Descendants

Died 14 Jul 1716 in England

Profile manager: Audrey McGlynn [send private message]

Edward Lee was a member of aristocracy in the British Isles.

Biography

Son of Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet of Quarendon and his wife Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe.

Edward Lee was Fifth Baronet of Ditchley and of Quarendon. At age 10 he was created Earl of Lichfield. He was also Viscount Quarendon and Baron Spelsbury. He followed James II to Rochester, Kent after the king's escape from Whitehall in December 1688.

Husband of Lady Charlotte Fitzroy. They married on 6 February 1677. They were twelve and thirteen years old when they wed. They had at least eleven children. Children of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield and Lady Charlotte Fitzroy

1. Captain Hon. James Lee d. 1711
2. Hon. Charles Lee d. 1708
3. Vice-Admiral Hon. Fitzroy Henry Lee d. 1720
4. Anne Lee
5. Elizabeth Lee
6. Lady Charlotte Lee b. 13 Mar 1678, d. 22 Jan 1721
7. Charles Lee, Viscount Quarendon b. 6 May 1680, d. Oct 1680
8. Edward Henry Lee, Viscount Quarendon b. 6 Jun 1681, d. 21 Oct 1713
9. George Henry Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield b. 12 Mar 1690, d. 13 Feb 1742
10. Lady Barbara Lee b. 3 Mar 1694
11. Robert Lee, 4th Earl of Lichfield b. 3 Jul 1706, d. 4 Nov 1766

Sources

• Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999)
• Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee, editors, Dictionary of National Biography Founded in 1882 by George Smith (London: Oxford University Press, 1922); Line 17C; page 25: "19. CHARLOTTE FITZROY, b. perhaps 5 Sept. 1664, d. 17 Feb. 1718; m. 6 Feb. 1677, Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, b. 4 Feb 1663, d. 14 July 1716, son of Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet, and Elizabeth Pope. (CP VII, 644).

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lee,_1st_Earl_of_Lichfield

Repositories

• ancestry.com/The Generations Network; Provo, Utah
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lee,_1st_Earl_of_Lichfield
• google books
• https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Edward%20Lee,%201st%20Earl%20of%20Lichfield

More Genealogy Tools