LEE, ERNEST PAGE (1862-1932) was born at Teignmouth, England, and educated at Cheltenham and London. In 1880 he was articled to a firm of solicitors in the west of England, and in 1885 he was admitted a solicitor. He came to New Zealand in 1886 and qualified as a barrister and solicitor. He was for some years managing clerk to Hislop and Creagh, Oamaru, and then practised with A. J. Grave (as Lee, Grave and Grave).

Lee was a member of the Oamaru borough council and of the school committee; a founder of the North Otago Jockey club, a member of the Waitaki High School board of governors and a strenuous advocate of junior high schools. In 1911 he defeated T. Y. Duncan for the Oamaru seat in Parliament, which he held until 1922 when he was defeated by J. A. Macpherson. He regained the seat three years later, but was again defeated by Macpherson in 1928.

Lee married Jane Winifred de Lambert (Oamaru). He died on 18 Feb 1932.

Who's Who N.Z., 1924; Otago Daily Times, 19 Feb 1932.

Reference: Volume 1, page 262

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