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Robert James Lee

FRCP (9 November 1841, St James Parish, London[1] – 17 November 1924, West Drayton, Middlesex[2]) was an English physician. He published papers on diseases of children[1] and on the "treatment of pulmonary phthisis by antiseptic vapours".[2]

Biography

He had two younger brothers, James Irwin Lee (1843–1880) and John Francis Lee (1850–1905), both of whom graduated from the University of Cambridge.[3][4] The father of the three brothers was the obstetrician Robert Lee, who held the chair of midwifery at St George's Hospital.[5]

After education at

M.R.C.P.[2] In 1869 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with both M.A. and M.D.[1]

At the beginning of his career, he was appointed as a physician to Marylebone's Western General Dispensary[6][7] and as a lecturer on forensic medicine and pathology at the Westminster Hospital. Later in his career he was appointed to St George's Hospital as an assistant obstetric physician, as well as a lecturer on obstetric medicine. He was also appointed to London's Hospital for Sick Children (later renamed Great Ormond Street Hospital) as an assistant physician with eventual promotion to full physician.[6]

In 1874

Goulstonian Lectures[8][9][10]
[11][12][13] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.[2]

He spent the years from 1910 to 1924 in retirement in West Drayton.[2] One of his two daughters was the actress Auriol Lee.[6]

Selected publications

Articles

Books

References

  1. ^ a b c d Biolgraphical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897. CUP Archive. p. 344.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Lee, Robert James (LY859RJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "Lee, John Irwin (LY862JI)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ "Lee, James Francis (LY870JF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ Allibone, S.A. (1896). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased: From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased: From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century. Lippincott. p. 988.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Robert James Lee". Royal College of Physicians of London.
  7. ^ "Western General Dispensary, London". Hospital Records Database, The National Archives, UK.
  8. PMID 20747778
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  9. PMID 20747789
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  10. PMID 20747796
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  11. PMID 20747804
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  12. PMID 20747811
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  13. PMID 20747818
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