Modern English biography

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