John Henry Mee (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1918) was a Oxford clergyman, composer and author on musical subjects.
[2] From 1884 until 1898 he was the tenant of Kettell Hall on Broad Street - the stone house then attached to the western side of Blackwell's Local Bookshop, now part of Trinity College.
[4] In 1899 he was appointed Precentor of Chichester Cathedral[4] and from then on he divided his time between Holywell House, Mansfield Road, Oxford and The Chantry, Foxbury Lane, Westbourne in Sussex.
For his submitted exercise - an elaborate Missa solemnis in Bb for soloists, double chorus and orchestra - Mee outdid the previous excesses of his predecessor Frederick Ouseley.
[8] He hired a team of the most eminent solo vocalists in the whole country, a complete orchestra and "Mr Alfred Broughton's Leeds Choir of 160 voices".
[9] The Bodleian Library in Oxford has a set of parts (with autograph corrections) for Mee's String Quartet in G major, composed circa 1885-1890 and published in 1890.