Educated at Uppingham School and the Royal Agricultural College,[2][3] Lee was a right-handed batsman and an occasional left-arm spin bowler.
[5] In the 1902 season, Lee reappeared in first-class cricket as a lower order batsman for Somerset.
Lee came in at 211 for six wickets and his 73, the top score of the innings, helped Somerset to a total of 361, after which Len Braund and Beaumont Cranfield bowled Lancashire out for 111 to complete a Somerset victory by 182 runs.
[8] Lee's lower order success saw him moved up the Somerset batting order and in August in the match against Middlesex at Taunton he made 83 in a high-scoring match, and this proved to be the highest score of his first-class career.
[10][12] The son of a merchant, Lee was the main investor behind the initial work of Edward Raymond Turner in developing a method of showing cinematic film in colour.