LEE, Rev. Samuel, D.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, was born at Longnor, in Shropshire, 14th May 1783, and was educated at a charity school in that village. Apprenticed to a carpenter at the age of twelve, he began early to display that power of application which characterized him all through life, and at the age of seventeen, he commenced to study Latin, purchasing books with his scanty savings. To an intimate acquaintance with this language, the knowledge of Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and Syriac, was soon afterwards added. In 1810 Archdeacon Corbett, hearing of his wonderful acquirements, obtained for him the mastership of Bowdler's foundation school in Shrewsbury. He entered Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1813, and took the degree of B.A. in 1817. In 1819 he became Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, and in 1825, Rector of Bilton with Harrowgate. He received the degree of B.D. in 1827, and became Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1831. Two years afterwards the degree of D.D., which he had
obtained in 1822 from the University of Halle, was again conferred upon him by his alma mater. He died in 1852.
His principal works are the following:—Events and Times of Visions of Daniel and St John, 8vo, London, 1851; Hebrew Grammar, 1830; Hebrew, Chaldaic, and English Lexicon, 1840; An Inquiry into the Nature, Progress, and End of Prophecy, 8vo, Cambridge, 1849; The Book of Job, translated from the original Hebrew, 1837.