Wellington Lee, AM OBE (17 September 1925 – 25 December 2022) was an Australian politician and pharmacist who served as the Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1999 to 2000.
[2] Lee's Chinese ancestors first arrived in Australia during the early 1850s Victorian gold rush.
[1] After the outbreak of the Second World War, Lee enlisted on 8 October 1943, and achieved a rank of leading aircraftman in the Royal Australian Air Force.
For many years after the war, Lee remained on the Active Reserve of Officers, and served as the state executive of the Victorian RSL.
[1] He worked as a pharmacist from 1950 and ran a pharmacy shop in Melbourne's Chinatown, on the corner of Little Bourke and Russell streets.