Lee, Sir George, Lord Of The Admiralty, (1700-1758)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0064 HAR/1-6
Held at	: National Maritime Museum   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Lee, Sir George, Lord Of The Admiralty, (1700-1758)
Date(s)	: [1712-1758]
Level of description	: Subfonds View parent record
Extent	: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Lee | Sir | George | 1700-1758 | Knight | lawyer and politician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Lee was a civil lawyer, and admitted as an advocate in Doctor's Commons in 1729. He was Member of Parliament for Brackley, 1733 to 1742, and afterwards represented Devizes, 1742 to 1747, Liskeard, 1747 to 1754, and Launceston, 1754 to 1758. In 1742 he was on the Board of Admiralty but in 1744 followed Lord Carteret (1690-1763) out of office. His connection with the Navy ceased from this time.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir George Lee, consisting of notes on Admiralty prize cases, 1720 to 1745, on courts martial, 1742 to 1744, on the case of Nuestra Senora de Cabadonga, 1744, and on the impressment of seamen. There are some letters, 1712 to 1758, which include those from Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768), written in 1744.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers, part of the Hartwell collection, were acquired in two sections. The first was bought at Sotheby's in 1939 and a further instalment, from Hartwell, was acquired through the British Records Association in 1941.

Allied Materials

Related material:

There are further papers relating to Lee in the Hartwell Collection in the Buckinghamshire Record Office.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jul 2011.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
2010-08-26