Rev. Thomas Lee D.D. was a 19th-century academic administrator at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

and clergyman. Lee graduated as a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford. He was

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Trinity College, Oxford (That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody) , named_for = The Holy Trinity , established = , sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge , president = Dame Hilary Boulding , location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH , coordinates ...

, from 1808 to 1824. While president at Trinity College, Lee was also

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from 1814 until 1818. The

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occurred during June 1814 when Lee was vice-chancellor. Emperor

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, King Frederick William III of Prussia, and Marshal

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt (; 21 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), ''Graf'' (count), later elevated to ''Fürst'' (sovereign prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian '' Generalfeldmarschall'' (field marshal). He earne ...

received honorary degrees during the visit to

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. Lee was also

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at Barton in

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