He married Harriet Waylett, a popular singer, on 23 October 1845 at St Martin-in-the Fields.
[3] He died at his lodgings in Newton Terrace, Kennington and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.
[4] Lee composed music for a number of plays and also many songs, including the popular "Come where the Aspens quiver", and for a short time had a music-selling business in the Quadrant.
In 1886, J. D. Brown wrote of his songs: "Lee was great in his day as a ballad writer, and a few of his more popular works have survived.
Much of Lee's music was written to the verses of Haynes Bayly, and suffer accordingly; for the good sense of the public never fails to rise superior to all such lackadaisical twaddle.