Sir Ernest Augustus Lee Steere (19 March 1866 – 22 December 1957) was a prominent Australian businessman and pastoralist.
[2] The property was mostly undeveloped at the time but Lee Steere soon brought it to a state of high production.
He had close ties with Elders, Smith and Co., The AMP Society and the WA Trustee, Executor and Agency company Ltd. Lee Steere was also on the committee of the Fairbridge Farm school in Pinjarra who sponsored the migration of British children to Australia.
[2] In 1946 he donated a farm at Mingenew, worth £8000, for returning servicemen as part of a settlement scheme for sub-division.
His son, Ernest Henry Lee-Steere was also a prominent businessman in Western Australia and served as Lord Mayor of Perth in the 1970s, while his grandson John Dawkins was federal treasurer in the 1990s.