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and amidst roars of laughter, somewhat at the 

 expense of the O.C. who was examining him, from 

 both auditors and members of the committee. With 

 all his peculiarities Dr. Lee was a general favourite 

 with all classes, his benevolence and kindness of 

 heart endearing him to every one with whom he 

 was brought in contact. He, with the late Sir 

 Harry Verney, the worthy baronet who died in 

 1894 at the age of ninety-three, founded the Bucks 

 infirmary, and as a start, and by way of an example 

 to other landowners, he gave 1,000/. as a subscrip- 

 tion, and, as the work progressed, largely added to 

 his original donation. The ' Lees ' of Ouarrendon 

 were the ancestors of this Hartwell family. I have 

 elsewhere described the disgraceful state of the 

 parish church at Ouarrendon : the fine monu- 

 ments, which I well remember in the chancel, were 

 memorials of the ancient ' Lees.' Admiral Smyth, 

 in his ' ^des Hartwelliance,' published in 1864 — a 

 copy of which was kindly presented to me by the 

 author and Dr. Lee, 'with their compliments,' on 

 March 22 of that year — describes one of the monu- 

 ments as ' a costly sarcophagus of Sir Henry Lee, 

 with his effigy in gilt armour, decorated with the 

 insignia of the Garter, erected in 1597, and near 

 him was a fine altar tomb, with recumbent figures of 

 his father and mother upon it.' I have seen these 

 tombs in my youth sadly mutilated, and now (1894) 

 tittcrly gone. And I have been told that the quiet 

 slumber of death on their features, even then some- 



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