Robert James Lee

Robert James Lee (9 November 1841, St James Parish, London – 17 November 1924, West Drayton, Middlesex ) was an English physician. He published papers on diseases of children The father of the three brothers was the obstetrician Robert Lee, who held the chair of midwifery at St George's Hospital.

After education at King's College School and Brighton College, In 1866 he qualified as M.R.C.P. 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. and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

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

Selected publications Articles (See phlegmasia alba dolens and erysipelas.)

(See Henry Halford.)

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