Ernest Lee

Ernest Page Lee (27 August 1862[1] – 19 February 1932) was a New Zealand lawyer and politician of the Reform Party.

Aged 18, he started learning the legal trade in a firm of solicitors in the West of England.

[2] He settled in Oamaru, and was at first a clerk in a legal firm owned by Thomas William Hislop and Arthur Gethin Creagh.

His sister, Leah Lee, was married to the French poet Jules Laforgue.

The 1922 Oamaru election result was invalidated due to irregularities, but Lee lost the subsequent 1923 by-election again to John MacPherson of the Liberal Party.