FitzRoy Henry Lee

FitzRoy Henry Lee
RN

Fitzroy Henry Lee, ca. 1725
Born (1699-01-02)2 January 1699
Died 14 April 1750(1750-04-14) (aged 51)
Allegiance  Kingdom of Great Britain
 United Kingdom
Service/branch  Royal Navy
Years of service 1716–1750
Rank Vice Admiral

Fitzroy Henry Lee (2 January 1699 – 14 April 1750) was a British officer of the Royal Navy who also served as the Commodore Governor of the Colony of Newfoundland.

Lee supposedly inspired the misogynist character "Hawser Trunnion" in Tobias Smollett's novel, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.[1]

Life

Lee was the seventh son of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, and Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, Charles II's illegitimate daughter.

Lee was born in Oxfordshire, England. He entered the Royal Navy in 1716, and obtained a promotion to lieutenant in 1722. Lee became captain of HMS Falkland in 1734 and was commissioned Governor of Newfoundland in May 1735.[2]

Around 1746, the Navy relieved Lee of command, based on charges of debauchery and drunkenness. A pending promotion to rear-admiral was suspended. However, in October 1747, when Lee arrived back in England, the Navy reinstated his promotion, effective 15 July 1747. On 12 May 1748, Lee was promoted to vice-admiral of the white, but he had no further service,

Lee died suddenly on 14 April 1750.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ J. K. Laughton, ‘Lee, Fitzroy Henry (1699–1750)’, rev. Philip Carter, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
  2. ↑ "FitzRoy Henry Lee". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
  3. ↑ Laughton 1892.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Laughton, John Knox (1892). "Lee, Fitzroy Henry". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

Political offices
Preceded by
Viscount Muskerry		 Commodore Governor of Newfoundland
1735–1737 		Succeeded by
Philip Vanbrugh


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