Brian North Lee FSA, (27 December 1936 in
Syston
Syston ( ) is a town and civil parish in the district of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England. The population was 11,508 at the 2001 census, rising to 12,804 at the 2011 census.
Overview
There has been a settlement on the site for over 1,000 ...
,
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
– 24 February 2007 in London) was a former teacher, Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...
since 1978 and expert on
bookplate
An ''Ex Libris'' (from ''ex-librīs'', ), also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the front endpaper, to indicate ownership. ...
s, or "ex-libris" as he preferred to call them. He was a prolific author on the last, and one of the co-founders in 1972 of The Bookplate Society. He was of the Christian faith, worked in Ghana for several years and kept contact with the country, and in later life worked as a volunteer for the
Terrance Higgins Trust. Lee never married.
''Brian North Lee''
Society of Antiquaries of London, 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
Selected publications
*''The bookplate designs of Rex Whistler'', 1973.
*''Early printed book labels'', 1976.
*''British bookplates'', 1979.
*''The ex-libris of Simon Brett'', 1982.
*''British Royal bookplates and ex-libris of related families'', Scolar Press, 1992.
*''Scottish bookplates''. (with Sir Ilay Campbell Bt.)
References
Further reading
Obituary in ''The Scotsman''.Archived here.
External links
Details of Brian North Lee's coat of arms:
'The Armorial Bearings of Brian North Lee F.S.A. of Chiswick', ''The Seaxe: Newsletter of the Middlesex Heraldry Society'', no. 52 (September 2006), p. 9.''The Seaxe'', no. 52 (September 2006) (scroll to page 9)''The Heraldry Gazette'', NS 109 (September 2008) (scroll to page 4)
1936 births
2007 deaths
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
People from Syston
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