LEE, EDWARD JAMES (1822-83) was born in London, where he was engaged in a bank before coming to Nelson (1848). In 1849, with Edward Jollie, he took up Mt Parnassus station, near which in 1859 William Jones discovered the Hanmer springs. Lee and Jollie drove 4,800 sheep through from Nelson to the Waiau-ua, taking two months and losing only 3 per cent. Lee moved to Southbridge in 1862, and was a member of the road board for a long period, and chairman of the Selwyn county council. He was elected to represent Selwyn in Parliament in 1883, and died on 17 Dec of that year. He married (1851) a daughter of Archdeacon Paul. Lee drove the first flock of sheep overland from Nelson to Canterbury.

Parlty Record; Cycl. NZ, iii; Acland; Lyttelton Times, 21 Dec 1883.

Reference: Volume 1, page 262

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