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JAMES PRINCE LEE (1804-1869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 361 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES PRINCE LEE (1804-1869)  ,
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English divine, was born in
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London on the 28th of
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July 1804, and was educated at St Paul's school and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he displayed exceptional ability as a classical scholar . After taking orders in 1830 he served under Thomas Arnold at
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Rugby school, and in 1838 was appointed head-master of King
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Edward's school,
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Birmingham, where he had among his pupils E . W . Benson, J . B . Lightfoot and B . F . Westcott . In 1848 Lord John Russell nominated him as first bishop of the newly-constituted see of Manchester . His pedagogic manner
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bore some-what irksomely on his clergy . He is best remembered for his splendid
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work in church extension; during his twenty-one years' tenure of the see he consecrated 130 churches . He took a foremost
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part in founding the Manchester
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free library, and bequeathed his own valuable collection of books to Owens College .

He died on the 24th of

December 1869 . A memorial sermon was preached by Archbishop E . W . Benson, and was published with
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biographical details by J . F . Wickenden and others .

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