Sir Ernest Henry Lee-Steere, KBE (22 December 1912 – 9 January 2011) was a prominent Australian businessman.
[1] Lee-Steere's interest in the sport of horse racing followed his father's; the latter had been chairman of the Western Australian Turf Club (WATC) from 1919 to 1940.
His mother was Bridget Yelverton Lee Steere (1884–1979); the youngest daughter of C. Y. O'Connor, she was prominent in her own right, as Commissioner of Girl Guides in Western Australia for about 17 years.
[7] Lee-Steere's two brothers died in WW2, and he created the sanctuary at St Stephen's Anglican Church, Toodyay in their memory.
[9] Lee-Steere's other daughter, Vynka, was briefly an actress, appearing in the Australian soap-opera Certain Women, before later attaining a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology and operating a private practice in Perth.