Following his education at Bradfield College he studied electrical engineering in Kensington.
He served with the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars during the Boer War, and on his return to England he moved to Coventry to finish his engineering training with the Daimler Company.
That year he, in partnership with Jens Stroyer, a Dane, founded the Lee Stroyer company in Coventry, producing petrol engines, and a limited number of cars.
[2][3] Following the departure of Stroyer in 1905 Lee relocated and renamed the company Coventry Simplex.
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