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Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham (8 November 1868 – 21 July 1947) was a British soldier, diplomat, politician and patron of the arts. After military postings and an assignment to the British Embassy in Washington, he entered politics and served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and First Lord of the Admiralty following the First World War. He donated his country house, Chequers, to the nation as a retreat for the Prime Minister and co-founded the Courtauld Institute of Art. ==Early life and military career== Arthur Hamilton Lee was born at The Rectory, Bridport, Dorset, in 1868. His father was rector of St. Mary's Church. He was a grandson of Sir John Theophilus Lee, G.C.H., R.N., who as a midshipman was present at the Battle of the Nile.〔Lord Lee of Fareham Professor of Strategy and Tactics, R.M.C., 1893–98 By No. 2141, T. L. Brock; Royal Military College of Canada Review yearbook 1962 p 189〕 After attending Cheltenham College, Lee entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before being commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a second lieutenant on 17 February 1888. He was promoted lieutenant on 18 February 1891. He was posted to the Far East China as Adjutant of the Hong Kong Volunteer 1881–1891. He returned to England in 1891, and was stationed on the Isle of Wight for the next two years. On 18 August 1893, at the age of twenty three, Lee became a professor of Strategy and Tactics, at the Royal Military College of Canada, with the local rank of captain. Since only 11 to 30 cadets entered the College in those days, Lee would have come up against only 140 cadets in his five years at the College (1893–1898) cadet numbers 320 to 4575. No. 433, Major General T. V. Anderson, D.S.O., recalls that Lee was known around the Royal Military College as 'The Nipper, which the cadets christened him because he used to sing Grossmith's songs with gusto. He enjoyed riding and walking across the ice to Wolfe Island, and to town. He was a regular attendant at St. George's Cathedral (Kingston, Ontario) to hear Dean Buxton Smith. When Colonel Gerald Kitson, K.R.R.C., became Commandant in 1897, Captain Lee came to live with the Kitsons in the Commandant's residence. in 1894, Lee initiated a Military Survey of the Canadian Frontier and supervised its progress until its completion in 1896. During the summer of 1897 he was a Special Correspondent for the London Daily Chronicle, covering the earlier stages of the Klondike Gold Rush based on his travels to Alaska and the Yukon. In 1900 when Lee resigned as British Military Attaché in Washington, Colonel Kitson resigned as Commandant of RMC to take over the Washington post vacated by Lee.〔Lord Lee of Fareham Professor of Strategy and Tactics, R.M.C., 1893–98 By No. 2141, T. L. Brock; Royal Military College of Canada Review yearbook 1962 p 189〕 He did not receive substantive promotion until the completion of his RMC appointment in 18 April 1898. He became the British military attaché with the United States Army in Cuba during the Spanish–American War in 1898. He received the U.S. campaign medal, he was made an honorary member of the lst U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the famous Roosevelt's "Rough Rider" and met Theodore Roosevelt. On 28 January 1899 Lee, who was still not thirty years old, was appointed military attaché at the British Embassy in Washington, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant Colonel (for the duration of his appointment). Although he would have preferred to have been on active service in South Africa, since the Boer War which had just started, Lee enjoyed the challenging diplomatic assignment.〔Lord Lee of Fareham Professor of Strategy and Tactics, R.M.C., 1893–98 By No. 2141, T. L. Brock; Royal Military College of Canada Review yearbook 1962 p 189〕 On 23 December 1899, Lee married Ruth Moore (died 1966), daughter of New York banker John Godfrey Moore. He had first met Ruth Moore at parties in Kingston and Gananoque and had taken her to balls at the Royal Military College, Kingston. Ruth was left a substantial inheritance after her father's death shortly before the wedding. He was promoted brevet major on 8 August 1900, and returned to regimental duty on 22 August 1900, and retired from the army on 12 December 1900. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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