William Lee (English judge)

Sir William Lee (2 August 1688 - 8 April 1754) was a British jurist and politician.

He was an MP from 1727 until 1730 when he became a Justice of the King's Bench. Lee was Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1737-06-08 until his sudden death in 1754. He was appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer as a temporary expedient on 1754-03-08, with his brother Sir George Lee as Under Treasurer of the Exchequer, until April 6. Lord Campbell noted that Lee 'certainly stood up for the rights of woman more strenuously than any English judge before or since his time'.

References

J. C. D. Clark, The Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Lord Campbell, The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: Volume III (Cockcroft and Co, 1878).

Legal offices
Preceded by The Lord Hardwicke	Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1737–1754	Succeeded by Sir Dudley Ryder
Political offices
Preceded by Henry Pelham	Chancellor of the Exchequer 1754	Succeeded by Henry Bilson Legge

Chancellors of the Exchequer

of England	Giffard Stanton Browne Witham Fowler Catesby Lovell Berners Cromwell Baker Sackville Mildmay Fortescue Dunbar Caesar Brooke Portland Barrett Cottington Colepeper Clarendon Shaftesbury Duncombe Ernle Warrington Hampden Halifax Smith Carleton

of Great Britain	Carleton Smith Oxford/Mortimer Bingley Wyndham Onslow Walpole Stanhope Aislabie Pratt Walpole Sandys Pelham Lee Bilson-Legge Lyttelton Bilson-Legge Mansfield Bilson-Legge Barrington le Despencer Grenville Dowdeswell Townshend North Cavendish Pitt Cavendish Pitt Sidmouth Pitt Lansdowne Perceval Bexley

of the United Kingdom	Bexley Goderich Canning Tenterden Herries Goulburn Spencer Denman Peel Monteagle Northbrook Goulburn Halifax Disraeli Gladstone Lewis Disraeli Gladstone Disraeli Hunt Lowe Gladstone Iddesleigh Gladstone Childers Hicks Beach Harcourt R Churchill Goschen Harcourt Hicks Beach Ritchie A Chamberlain Asquith Lloyd George McKenna Bonar Law A Chamberlain Horne Baldwin N Chamberlain Snowden W Churchill Snowden N Chamberlain Simon Wood Waverley Dalton Cripps Gaitskell Butler Macmillan Thorneycroft Amory Lloyd Maudling Callaghan Jenkins Macleod Barber Healey Howe Lawson Major Lamont Clarke Brown Darling Osborne

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Name	Lee, William
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Date of birth	2 August 1688
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Date of death	8 April 1754
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