Sir Henry Lee, 3rd Baronet

Lee baronets, of Quarendon, Buckinghamshire (1611–1776)

This branch of the family owned Ditchley House, current home of the Ditchley Foundation. The last male heir of the Lees of Quarendon, was the 4th Earl of Lichfield Robert Lee, a grandson of Charles II. When he died childless in 1776, the title became extinct.

Biography

Sir Henry Lee, 3rd Bt. (born ca. 1633; died 1659 of smallpox like his father); he married ca. 1655 Ann Danvers (d. 1659 in childbirth), daughter of Sir John Danvers, a prominent Puritan neighbor at Cornbury and Chelsea and regicide of King Charles I.

They had two daughters who were co-heiresses –

• Eleanora, or Ellen (died 31 May 1691 or 1692), who married 1 February 1672 to Lord Norreys who became Earl of Abingdon in 1682, and [2]
• Anne, or Nan (c. 1659 – 29 October 1685), later first wife since 16 September 1673 of Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton; she had no issue, and left her husband her money.

References

• “Memorials of the Danvers Family (of Dauntsey and Culworth): Their Ancestors ...” By Francis Nottidge MacNamara. Page 296. GoogleBooks
• Gaisford, John (2015) Capital in the countryside: social change in West Wiltshire, 1530-1680. PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London. Page 299. PDF Pedigree 6: Danvers of Dauntsey.
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_baronets#Sir_Henry_Lee,_3rd_Bar...