Frederick George Lee

Frederick George Lee (6 January 1832 in Thame, Oxfordshire – 22 January 1902 at Lambeth, London) was a priest of the Church of England and a religious author. He co-founded the Order of Corporate Reunion.

Biography Lee was trained in Cuddesdon Theological College and ordained to priesthood in 1856 by the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce. Lee became, together with Ambrose de Lisle and others, a co-founder of the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom (APUC) in 1857. In Aberdeen, he had difficulties with the bishop concerning his ritualistic practices; he later became vicar of All Saints' Lambeth, London.

In 1874, Lee, John Thomas Seccombe, and Thomas Wimberley Mossman founded a clandestine Anglo-Papalist society, the Order of Corporate Reunion, to continue the work of the APUC and to restore an apostolic succession recognised by the Roman Catholic Church through re-ordinations, as a means for reunion. Lee styled himself Bishop of Dorchester for a while and performed some ordinations, but later became disillusioned and believed that he made a mistake.

In the late 1880s, Lee was a member of the Order of the White Rose, the club that sparked the Neo-Jacobite Revival in the United Kingdom. On 11 December 1901, Lee was received into the Roman Catholic Church, shortly before his death.

In addition to his published sermons, books, and literary work, Lee edited numerous periodicals during his career, including The Union Newspaper (1856-1862), The Scottish Miscellany (1860-1861), The Union Review (1863-1869), The Church News (1867-1869), The Church Herald (1870), The Lambeth Review (1872), The Reunion Magazine (1877-1879, four numbers issued irregularly).

Works

Poems, 1850, 1854 (2nd ed.) The Martyrs of Vienne and Lyons: A Prize Poem Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 28, 1854 Our Village and Its Story, with a Postscript: Verses, 1855 The Progress of the Church: A Sermon, 1857 Until the Day Break: A Sermon Preached in Substance at the Mission Church of S. Saviour, Wellclose Square, S. George's-in-the-East, Diocese of London, 1857 Death, Judgment, Hell, and Heaven: Four Advent Sermons, 1858 Refrain from These Men: A Sermon, 1859 The Cheyne Case: A Letter to Adam Urquhart, 1860 The Gospel Message: A Series of Original Sermons (editor, 1860) A Statement of Facts, with Regard to His Resignation of the Incumbency of St. John's, Aberdeen, 1861 Clinton Maynard: A Tale of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, 1862 [i. e. Episcopal Church of Scotland Prayers for the Reunion of Christendom (edit.), 1863 The Message of Reconciliation: Four Advent Sermons, 1864 Sermons on the Reunion of Christendom (edit.), 1864 Directorium Anglicanum, 1865 (2nd ed.), 1878 (4th ed.) Also online from Archive.org Paraphrastica expositio articulorum Confessionis Anglicanae, 1865 (editor)

Notitia Liturgica, 1866 Morning and Evening Prayers Specially Intended for Children, together with Devotions for the Holy Sacrifice, 1866 The King's Highway, 1866, 1872 (2nd ed.) Altar Service Book, 3 vol., 1867 Essays on the Reunion of Christendom (edit.), 1867 Mary, the Mother of God, 1868 Sermons, Parochial and Occasional, 1868 Petronilla, and Other Poems, 1869 The "Sour Grapes" of Dis-union: A Sermon Preached in Substance at All Saints' Church, Lambeth, 1869

The Beauty of Holiness: Ten Lectures on External Religious Observances, 1860, 1869 (4th ed.) Confidence in God: A Sermon, 1871 Our Duty to the Departed: A Sermon, 1871 A Dictionary of Ritual and Other Ecclesiastical Terms, 1871 The Abolition and Rejection of the Athanasian Creed: A Letter, 1872 The Christian Doctrine of Prayer for the Departed, 1872 Rest in Death: A Funeral Sermon on the Decease of the Rev. John Purchas, 1872 Manuale Clericorum, 1874 The Bells of Botteville Tower and Other Poems, 1874 The Other World, Or Glimpses of the Supernatural, 1875 volume one volume two Memorials of R. S. Hawker (edit.), 1876 A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms, 1877 Pastoral Letter by the Rector, Provincials, and Provosts of the Order of Corporate Reunion, 1877 The Repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act: A Letter, 1877 More Glimpses of the World Unseen, 1878 Historical Sketches of the Reformation, 1879 The Words from the Cross: Seven Sermons, 1879 The Church under Queen Elizabeth, 1880 volume one volume two "new and cheaper edition" 1897 Hymns for Several Occasions, together with a Litany for the Faithful Departed, 1880 Order out of Chaos: Three Sermons Preached at All Saints', Lambeth, 1881 Reginald Barentyne, or Liberty without Limit: A Tale of the Times, 1881, 1883 (2nd ed.)

From Crown to Crown: A Tale of the Early Church, 1885 Glimpses in the Twilight, 1885 King Edward the Sixth, Supreme Head, 1886 On Fads and Fadmongers, 1887 Immodesty in Art: An Expostulation and Suggestion, 1887 Reginald Pole: Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury: An Historical Sketch with an Introductory Prologue and Practical Epilogue, 1888 A Manual of Politics, 1889 The Sinless Conception of the Mother of God, 1891 Sights and Shadows, 1894 De Profundis: Various Verses, 1899 The Ecclesiastical Situation in 1899, from a Tractarian Standpoint, 1899