Yestesday Today | Police Magistrate Benjamin Lee: part one

By Alan McRae
November 4 2019 - 7:00am
TAKE A SEAT: Retired Bathurst police magistrate Benjamin Lee Junior poses for a portrait with members of his family in the Sydney suburb of Annandale.
TAKE A SEAT: Retired Bathurst police magistrate Benjamin Lee Junior poses for a portrait with members of his family in the Sydney suburb of Annandale.

This week's image shows members of police magistrate Benjamin Lee's family. Benjamin Jnr is sitting in a chair with his daughter Ethel May Lee sitting next to him. Benjamin was aged 92, and retired, when this photo was taken at Annandale in Sydney. This is part one in the life of Benjamin Lee.

Young Benjamin Lee was born on April 2, 1826 in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, in the United Kingdom. At age two, he came to the Southern Colony with his parents Benjamin Lee Senior, and his wife Lucy, along with four other children. They were bounty immigrants. Benjamin Lee Senior was a soldier, farmer, landholder and entrepreneur.

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