Ernest Lee

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Ernest Page Lee (1862-1932) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.

He was the Member of Parliament for Oamaru from 1911 to 1922, when he was defeated in the 1922 election.

The result in the Oamaru seat was invalidated due to irregularities, but Lee lost the subsequent by-election held to decide the seat, again to John MacPherson of the Liberal Party. He won the seat from MacPherson in 1925, but again lost it to MacPherson in 1928.

He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Reform Government from 1920 to 1923.

Born in Teignmouth, England, he emigrated to New Zealand in 1886. He was a barrister in Oamaru, and in 1895 married Miss de Lambert.

[edit] Further reading

• Scholefield, Guy H. (1925), Who’s who in New Zealand and the western Pacific. 1925 (2nd ed.), Masterton, [N.Z.]: G. H. Scholefield 

• Wilson, James Oakley (1985), New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 (4th ed.), Wellington, [N.Z.]: Government Printer