Lee, William

D.D. (Edinburgh, 1868), Church of Scotland; b. in Edinburgh, Nov. 6, 1817; graduated from Edinburgh University, 1839; was minister of the parish of Roxburgh, Scotland, 1843-74; and since has been profe or of ecclesiastical history in the University of Glasgow. His father was John Lee, D.D., LL.D. (d. 1859), principal and profe or of divinity in the University of Edinbur 138 gh, dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland, one of the Queen's chaplains for Scotland, and an authority in Scottish church history. He is the editor of Dr. John Lee's Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland, 1860, 2 vols.; Thomas Somerville's My Own Life and Times, 1861 and the author of National Education in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1848, 2d ed. 1851; The Increase of Faith, 1867, 2d ed. 1868; The Days of the Son of Man: a History of the Church in the Time of Christ, 1874; and various contributions to the Bible Educator, the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopadia t etc. D. at Glasgow, Oct. 10, 1886.