Henry Lee (c. 1657 – 6 September 1734) of Dungeon, Canterbury was an English Tory politician who sat in the

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in three periods between 1685 and 1715. Lee was the son of Dr John Lee,

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and his third wife Anne English, daughter of Henry English of Maidstone. His father later took the name of Warner by Act of Parliament under the terms of the will of his uncle Dr John Warner,

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. He matriculated at

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, on 4 July 1673, aged 16. He married Dorothy Howe, daughter of

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and his wife Elizabeth Grimstone, daughter of

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on 16 October 1679. Lee purchased the manor of Dungeon in Kent.''Canterbury: Manors'', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 11 (1800), pp. 147-164. Date accessed: 19 November 2010
/ref> He became an alderman of Canterbury and in March 1685 was elected

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(MP) for

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as a Tory. In 1687 he was elected Mayor of Canterbury, but dismissed from office by order of King James II. However he was re-elected MP for Canterbury in 1689 and held the seat until 1695. He was

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of a regiment of the

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in 1697.Col George Jackson Hay, ''An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force)'', London:United Service Gazette, 1905, p. 377.
/ref> He was MP for Canterbury again from 1698 until he was defeated at the 1708 British general election. In 1704 he was appointed a Commissioner of Victualling. He was returned again for Canterbury at the

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and was appointed a Commissioner for Victualling again in 1711. He was returned again at the 1713 general election but was defeated in 1715. Lee died on 6 September 1734. His son

Henry Lee Warner Henry Lee Warner (23 July 1688 – 13 December 1760) was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1711 to 1713. Warner was the son of Henry Lee and his wife Dorothy Howe, daughter of Sir George Grobham ...

, who was MP for Hindon, pulled down the mansion of the Dungeon.

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