OBITUARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 June 1922, Page 5

OBITUARY

Mil ROBERT USE FORMER HEADMASTER OF . BISHOP’S SCHOOL The death occurred on Sunday at his residence, Belvoir, Lower Hutt, in His SotH year, of Mr Robert Lee,. m liis day one of the foremost educationists of the Dominion. The late Mr Robert Lee was born at Grantham, Lincolnshire. At the close of Ins college career, he entered the teaching profession, and while headmaster at All Saints’ School, Preston, Lancashire, was appointed to the; headmawtersbip of the Bishop s School at iNelson, New Zealand. Tlp& appointment was conferred by Bishop Chapman, the late Bishop of Colombo, who was at the time on a visit to England, and acting for- Bishop Hobhonse, nrst Bishop of Nelson. rT , , . Mr Lee came to New Zealand in the beginning of 1864, in the ship Mcmen o. He conducted the Bishop’s School at Nelson for ten years. In 1874, he was appointed chief inspector of. schools under the Wellington Education Board, and retired in June, 1014. The late Air Robert Leo leaves a wudow and the following sons and daughters to mourn their Robert Lee (Auckland), Mr Phillip Lee, Mi Lincoln Lee (Auckland) arid Air Derwent Lee (Lower • Hntt), Mrs H. M. Heywood (Wellington), Miss Ina Lee Miss Myrtle Lee (England), Mrs M.’Gregor Turnbull (Hawke’s Bay), Mrs ErM. Grant (South Africa).