Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Lee, John Edward
LEE, John Edward, F.S.A., F.G.S., was born Dec. 21, 1808, at Newland, near Hull. For some years he was the Hon. Secretary of the Hull Royal Institution, and studied geology under the late Professor Phillips. He has, however, written nothing on geology with the exception of a few papers in the journals, though he has amassed a large private collection of fossils. In 1841 he removed to Caerleon, in Monmouthshire, and took an active part in forming the County Antiquarian Association, of which for more than 26 years he was the Honorary Secretary, and as an amateur artist he contributed to most of its periodicals. In 1862, he published "Isca Silurum," or an illustrated catalogue of the Roman remains found at Caerleon, the ancient capital of the Siluri, and in 1866 appeared his translation and re-arrangement of Dr. Keller's "Lake Dwellings," a second edition of which appeared in 1878, in two volumes. He has also published "Roman Imperial Photographs," 1874; and "Roman Imperial Profiles; being a series of more than 160 Lithographic Profiles enlarged from Coins," 1874; a translation of Conrad Merk's "Excavations at the Kesslerloch, near Thayngen, Switzerland, a Cave of the Reindeer Period," 1876; and "The Note-Book of an Amateur Geologist," 1881. For twenty-eight years he has been in the commission of the peace for Monmouthshire, but he is now residing at Torquay, and he is one of the local secretaries of the Society of Antiquaries for Devonshire.