LEES, CHARLES. _b._ Cupar, Fifeshire 1800; studied art at
Rome some years; portrait painter at Edinburgh; fellow of
Royal Scottish academy 1835 where he exhibited regularly,
treasurer 1865 and a trustee; two pictures by him of curling
and golf matches were engraved; his picture Summer Moonlight,
bait-gatherers, is in Scottish national gallery; exhibited 6
pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1832–63. _d._
19 Scotland st. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1880. _The Scotsman 1 March
1880 p._ 4.
LEES, EDWIN. _b._ Worcester 1800; printer and stationer at 87
High st. Worcester, retired early and became a local botanist;
founded Worcester Literary and scientific institute 12 Jany.
1829, joint sec.; F.L.S., F.G.S.; one of the first to pay regard
to forms of brambles, commemorated botanically by his discovery
of Rubus Leesii; author of Christmas and the new year 2 ed.
1828, a masque in verse; Guide to the city and cathedral of
Worcester. By Ambrose Florence; published The Worcestershire
miscellany 5 numbers 1829; author of Botany of the Malvern
hills 1843, 3 ed. 1868; The botany of Worcestershire 1867; The
botanical looker-out among the wild flowers 1842, 2 ed. 1851;
Pictures of nature around the Malvern hills 1856; Scenery and
thought in poetical pictures of landscape scenes and incidents