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Lee
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GB 275 Lee
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Papers of John Lee
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- 1793–1865 (Creation)
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87 items paper
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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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Letters (dated 1793-1865); correspondence between Thomas Smart Hughes and John Lee and other documents relating to Payssio Tipaldo, Archimandrite of Cephalonia (dated 1824-5); diaries and sketchbooks
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- English
- Italian
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Preferred citation: St John's College Library, Papers of John Lee
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19 Sep 2005