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| Lee, Samuel. Adm. pens. at QUEENS', Jan. 25, 1814. [B. May 14, 1783, at Longnor, Shropshire. Educated at a Shropshire village school.] Son of poor parents; at the age of 12 apprenticed to a carpenter by whom he was on one occasion sent to the house of a gentleman who had a good library, where he was discovered reading the books in his dinner-hour. Taught himself Greek and Hebrew, and before he was 25 had made progress in Chaldee, Syriac, Samaritan, Persian, and Hindustani. Brought to Cambridge under the auspices of the C.M.S. and Isaac Milner. Matric. Lent, 1814; B.A. 1818; M.A. (per Lit. Reg.) 1819 (in a shorter time than usual in order to be Professor of Arabic); B.D. 1827. Migrated to Trinity, 1831; D.D. 1833. D.D. (Halle) 1822. Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic, 1819-31. Regius Professor of Hebrew, 1831-48. Ord. priest (Gloucester) June 21, 1818. Chaplain of Cambridge gaol, 1823. R. of Bilton, Yorks., 1825-31. Canon of Bristol Cathedral, 1831-52. V. of Banwell, Somerset, 1831-8. 'Charles Darwin, in 1838, wrote that Lee had just then "returned to civilised society and Oriental manuscripts" at Cambridge, having had a living or curacy for seven years in Somersetshire.' R. of Barley, Herts., 1838-52. One of the greatest linguists of the 19th century. Author, A Grammar of the Hebrew Language; A Lexicon, Hebrew, Chaldee, and English; Dissent, unscriptural and unjustifiable; The doctrine of the Keys, etc. Died Dec. 16, 1852. Buried at Barley. (D.N.B.; Boase, II. 558; Foster, Index Eccles.; Cambridge Review, Dec. 21, 1852; C.M. Intelligencer, Mar. 1853; C.U. Hist. Reg., 77; De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes; Charles Darwin, Life and Letters, I. 189.) | Samuel LEE Approx. lifespan: 1783–1852 pens. Queens' College adm1814:01:25 b. Longnor, Shropshire 1783:05:14 Educated at a Shropshire village school.] Son of poor parents;at the age of 12 apprenticed to a carpenter by whom he was on one occasion sent to the house of a gentleman who had a good library, where he was discovered reading the books in his dinner-hour. Taught himself Greek and Hebrew, and before he was 25 had made progress in Chaldee, Syriac, Samaritan, Persian, and Hindustani. Brought to CB under the auspices of C.M.S. and Isaac Milner. Matric 1814:01LT: BA 1818 MA per Lit. Reg. 1819 (in a shorter time than usual in order to be Professor of: Arabic); BD 1827 Mig. to Trinity College 1831 DD 1833 DD Halle 1822 Sir Thomas Adams Professor of: Arabic 1819-31 Regius Professor of: Hebrew 1831-48 Ord. priest Gloucester 1818:06:21 Chapl.: CB gaol [ Cambridgeshire ] 1823 R.: Bilton, Yorkshire 1825-31 Canon of: : Bristol Cathedral Bristol, [ Somerset ] 1831-52 V.: Banwell, Somerset 1831-38 "Charles Darwin, in1838, wrote that Lee had just then "returned to civilised society and Oriental manuscripts" CB, [ Cambridgeshire ], having had a living or curacy for seven years Somersetshire, [ Somerset ] ." R.: Barley, Hertfordshire 1838-52 One of the greatest linguists of the 19th century. Publ.: A Grammar of the Hebrew Language; A Lexicon, Hebrew, Chaldee, and English; Dissent, unscriptural and unjustifiable; The doctrine of the Keys etc. d. bur. Barley, [ Hertfordshire ] 1852:12:16 ( D.N.B.; Boase, II. 558; Foster, Index Eccles.; CB Review 1852:12:21; C.M. Intelligencer 1853:03; C.U. Hist. Reg., 77; De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes ; Charles Darwin, Life and Letters, I. 189.) [add:]His 2nd wife, Marie, died 1837:11:05 at Bristol, [ Somerset ] [:add] [add:]Married (3) in 1840; a dau. of this marriage wrote in 1896: 'A scholar of a past generation'[:add] [add:]His dau. Elizabeth married in July 1831 in Paris, [ France ], E.H. Ffinney, 62nd Foot[:add] [add:]Resigned the Chaplaincy of Cambridge Gaol, [ Cambridgeshire ] in 1831[:add] [add:]M.I. at Barley, [ Hertfordshire ] [:add] [add:]Engraving of portrait: CAS: G.276[:add] [add:](P.J. Barnwell: C.C. of 1837:11:18 )[:add] |