Sir Edward Henry Lee, 5th Baronet, of Ditchley and of Quarendon, created 1st Earl of Lichfield (4 February 1663 – 14 July 1716) was an English

England

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 peer

Peerage

The Peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles in the United Kingdom, which constitute the ranks of British nobility and is part of the British honours system...

. He was a staunch tory and followed James II

James II of England

James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland...

 to Rochester, Kent after the king's escape from Whitehall in December 1688. His subsidiary titles were Viscount Quarendon and Baron Spelsbury.

Biography

Lee was the son of Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet of Quarendon

Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet

Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1667....

 and his wife Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe, who was later third wife of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey

Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey

Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, 16th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, PC, FRS was a British Hereditary Peer. He was the son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey and Martha Cokayne. His mother died shortly after his birth about July 1641.From 1661 to 1666 he was Member of Parliament for Boston in...

. His great grandfather, Henry Lee, was the cousin and heir of Henry Lee of Ditchley

Henry Lee of Ditchley

Sir Henry Lee KG , of Ditchley, was Master of the Ordnance under Queen Elizabeth I of England.-Life:Lee became Queen Elizabeth I’s champion in 1570 and was appointed Master of the Royal Armouries in 1580, an office which he held until his death...

. His father's half-brother was the libertine

Libertine

A libertine is one devoid of most moral restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behavior sanctified by the larger society. Libertines, also known as rakes, placed value on physical pleasures, meaning those...

-poet the Earl of Rochester

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , styled Viscount Wilmot between 1652 and 1658, was an English Libertine poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts...

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Lee was created Earl of Lichfield

Earl of Lichfield

Earl of Lichfield is a title that has been created three times in British history. Lord Bernard Stewart, youngest son of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, was to be created Earl of Lichfield by Charles I for his actions at the battles of Newbury and Naseby but died before the creation could...

 in 1674 at the age of ten, a result of his betrothal to the daughter of King Charles II

Charles II of England

Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...

. The Lady Charlotte Fitzroy

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield , formerly Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England by one of his most notorious mistresses, Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland-Family:She was the fourth child and second daughter of Barbara Palmer née Villiers,...

 was the fourth of six children born to the king's infamous mistress

Mistress (lover)

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, the Duchess of Cleveland

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland was an English courtesan and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of which were acknowledged and subsequently ennobled...

. Sweet-natured and strikingly beautiful, Charlotte was adored by her father the king despite the fact that she was a bastard

Bastard (Law of England and Wales)

A bastard in the law of England and Wales is a person whose parents, at the time of his/her birth, were not married to each other....

. She was contracted at the age of ten to Lee, who was one year older than his bride-to-be. Three years later, having reached puberty

Puberty

Puberty is the process of physical changes by which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of reproduction, as initiated by hormonal signals from the brain to the gonads; the ovaries in a girl, the testes in a boy...

, twelve- and thirteen-year-olds were married on 6 February 1677. He died two years before his wife, aged 53.

From 1687 to 1689, Lichfield served as Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire

Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. Since 1689, all Lords Lieutenant have also been Custos Rotulorum of Oxfordshire.*Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk 1545*vacant?*Sir Francis Knollys in 1565...

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Issue

Lady Lichfield

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield , formerly Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England by one of his most notorious mistresses, Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland-Family:She was the fourth child and second daughter of Barbara Palmer née Villiers,...

 bore him at least eleven children, probably more.

• Charles, d. in infancy.
• Edward, d. unmarried.
• James, m. Sarah, daughter of John Bagshaw, and d. in 1711.
• Charles, d. unmarried.
• George-Henry
  George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield
  George Henry Lee I, 2nd Earl of Lichfield was the sixth son of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield and his wife Charlotte Fitzroy, an illegitimate daughter of Charles II by his mistress, the celebrated courtesan Barbara Villiers. On 14 July 1716 George Henry Lee succeeded his father as the 2nd...
  
  , successor to his father.
• Fitzroy-Henry
  FitzRoy Henry Lee
  Fitzroy Henry Lee was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served as Commodore Governor of Newfoundland, Canada. He was supposedly the model for Hawser Trunnion from Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle....
  
  , d. s. p. in 1720.
• Robert
  Robert Lee, 4th Earl of Lichfield
  Robert Lee, 4th Earl of Lichfield was an uncle of the 3rd Earl, George Henry Lee II. He was a son of Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield and his wife Charlotte Fitzroy, an illegitimate daughter of Charles II....
  
  , who succeeded his nephew.
• Charlotte, m. first, to Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
  Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
  Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, 10th Proprietary Governor of Maryland was an English nobleman and politician. He was the second son of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore by Jane Lowe. He became his father's heir upon the death of his elder brother, Cecil in 1681...
  
  , and secondly, to Christopher Crow, Consul at Livorno
  Livorno
  Livorno , traditionally Leghorn , is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of approximately 160,000 residents in 2009.- History :...
  
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• Anne.
• Barbara, m. first, to Colonel Lee, and secondly, to Sir George Browne, bart.
  Browne Baronets
  There have been ten Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Browne , six in the Baronetage of Great Britain, three in the Baronetage of Ireland and one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. Only one creation is extant as of 2010...
  
  ; by the latter she had a daughter,
  • Barbara Browne, heir of her father, who m. Sir Edward Mostyn, bart. of Talacre
    Mostyn Baronets
    There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Mostyn, both in the Baronetage of England. One creation is extant as of 2008....
    
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• Elizabeth, m. first, to Francis Lee, and secondly, to Edward Young
  Edward Young
  Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night Thoughts.-Early life:He was the son of Edward Young, later Dean of Salisbury, and was born at his father's rectory at Upham, near Winchester, where he was baptized on 3 July 1683. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated...
  
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Ancestry

Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield's ancestors in three generations

Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield	Father: Sir Francis Henry Lee of Ditchley, 4th Baronet of Quarendon	Paternal Grandfather: Sir Francis Henry Lee of Ditchley and of Quarendon	Paternal Great-grandfather: Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, 1st Baronet of Quarendon
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Eleanor Wortley of Wortley Wortley Wortley could refer to:Places*Wortley, South Yorkshire**Wortley railway station**Wortley Hall**Wortley Rural District*Wortley, West Yorkshire - district of LeedsPeople*Alexander Wortley , English naval veteran eccentric...
		Paternal Grandmother: Anne St John, Countess of Rochester Anne Lee, Countess of Rochester Anne Wilmot , Countess of Rochester was born in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, or Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, the daughter of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet of Lydiard Tregoze and Anne Leighton.Anne St...	Paternal Great-grandfather: Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, of Lydiard Tregoze Lydiard Tregoze Lydiard Tregoze is a small village and civil parish on the western edge of Swindon in the County of Wiltshire, in the south west of England. It has in the past been spelt as Liddiard Tregooze and in other ways.-History:...
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Anne Leighton of Feckenham Feckenham Feckenham is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Redditch in Worcestershire, England. It lies some three miles south-west of the town of Redditch and is around twelve miles north-east of the ancient city of Worcester...
	Mother: Lady Elizabeth Pope	Maternal Grandfather: Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe Earl of Downe Earl of Downe was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 16 October 1628 for Sir William Pope, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Wilcote in the County of Oxford, in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 and was made Baron Pope at the same time as he was... , Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...	Maternal Great-grandfather: Sir William Pope, Knight (1596-1624)
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Elizabeth Watson of Halstead Halstead, Kent Halstead is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the North Downs, 3 miles south of Orpington and 5 miles north of Sevenoaks....
		Maternal Grandmother: Lucy Dutton	Maternal Great-grandfather: John Dutton of Sherborne Sherborne Sherborne is a market town in northwest Dorset, England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The A30 road, which connects London to Penzance, runs through the town. The population of the town is 9,350 . 27.1% of the population is aged 65 or...
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Elizabeth Baynton of Wilts Wiltshire Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...