Lee, Right Rev. Alfred

S.T.D. (Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., 1841; Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1860), LL.D. (Delaware College, Newark, Del., 1877), Episcopalian, bishop of Delaware and presiding bishop; b. at Cambridge, Ma ., Sept. 9, 1807; graduated at Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1827; studied law, and practised two years in Norwich, Conn.; graduated at the General Theological Seminary, New-York City, 1837; was rector of Calvary, Rock dale, Penn., until his elevation to the episcopate, Oct. 12, 1841; became presiding bishop on death of Bishop B. B. Smith, May 31, 1884. He is a moderate Episcopalian. He was a member of the New-Testament Revision Company, 1870-81. Besides charges, addre es, etc., he has written Life of the Apostle Peter, New York, 1852; The Beloved Disciple, 1854; Life of Susan All i bone, Philadelphia, 1855; The Voice in the Wilderne , New York, 1857; Co-operative Revision of the New Testament, 1881; Eventful Nights in Bible History, 1886.