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Reference code
Lee/Box 1a/Doc 63
Unique identifier
GB 275 Lee/Box 1a/Doc 63
Title
'Odd Position'
Date(s)
- 1833 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1p paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1783-1866)
Biographical history
Traveller, astronomer, antiquary; son of John Fiott; educated at St John's College; made a tour through Europe and the East collecting objects of antiquity, 1807-10; MA 1809; assumed name of Lee by royal license, 1815; FSA, 1828; built observatory on his estate, 1830; FRS, 1831; practising member of the ecclesiastical courts till 1858; QC, 1864; published scientific and antiquarian works.
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Scope and content
An account of Dr Kaye, Master of Christ College, working behind the counter of Mortlock's Bank during the run on the bank, Christmas, 1824. Quoted from E. Neale, Whychcotte of St John's Vol. II (1833). In John Lee's hand.