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Lee/Box 1b/Doc 77
Unique identifier
GB 275 Lee/Box 1b/Doc 77
Title
Statement in Lee's handwriting
Date(s)
- 12 November 1825 (Creation)
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Item
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
Confirms that the Archimandrite had received £100, his passport and a letter of recommendation to Sci. T Aldorno of Corfu from the British Government. He had also received various sums from subscriptions. He had departed for Paris, Marseilles, Leghorn, Ancona and then to Corfu.