Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham

The Right Honourable The Viscount Lee of Fareham GCB GCSI GBE PC
Lord Lee of Fareham, 1903.
First Lord of the Admiralty
In office 13 February 1921 – 31 October 1922
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George Bonar Law
Preceded by	Walter Long
Succeeded by	Leo Amery
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
In office 15 August 1919 – 13 February 1921
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	Rowland Edmund Prothero
Succeeded by	Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
Personal details
Born	Arthur Hamilton Lee (1868-11-08)8 November 1868 Bridport, Dorset, England
Died	21 July 1947(1947-07-21) (aged 78) Avening, Gloucestershire, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Ruth Moore Lee
Education	Cheltenham College Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Occupation	Politician, statesman and public servant, soldier, philanthropist and patron of the arts.

Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham, GCB, GCSI, GBE, PC (8 November 1868 – 21 July 1947), was an English soldier, diplomat, politician, philanthropist and patron of the arts. After military postings and an assignment to the British Embassy in Washington, he retired from the military in 1900. He entered politics, was first elected in 1900, and later served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and First Lord of the Admiralty following the First World War.^[1] He donated his country house, Chequers, to the nation as a retreat for the Prime Minister, and co-founded the Courtauld Institute of Art.