William Lee (English judge)

Sir William Lee PC (2 August 1688 – 8 April 1754) was a British jurist and politician.

He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1704, shortly after entering the Middle Temple; he did not take a degree, but was called to the bar in 1710.

Member of Parliament for Wycombe from 1727 until 1730, he gave up the seat when he became a Justice of the King's Bench.

[1] Lee was Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 8 June 1737 until his sudden death in 1754.

[1] Lord Campbell noted that Lee "certainly stood up for the rights of woman more strenuously than any English judge before or since his time".