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Description: | The election results are being announced outside the Parish Hall in West Street in front of a huge crowd. The announcement is made in front of a police guard and the women in the crowd are very formally dressed in bonnets and long dresses. Arthur Lee first won the seat for South Hants at Fareham in 1900 for the Conservatives. He successfully defended his seat in the elections of the 20th January 1906 and 1910 (twice).
Arthur Lee was MP for South Hants from 1900-1922.
In 1903 he had served as Civil Lord of the Admiralty. In the January 1906 elections, his opponent was John Sandy. From 1906 to 1914 he was Opposition spokesman on naval affairs. On the outbreak of the WW1 he rejoined the army as a colonel and served on the staff of the British Expeditionary Force before being appointed Parliamentary Military Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions (1915-1916), Personal Military Secretary to the War Secretary (1916-1917) and Director General of Food Production (1917-1918). He became 1st Baron Lee of Fareham in 1918. In August 1919 he was appointed President of the Board of Agriculture, then Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. He held this position until 1921 when he became First Lord of the Admiralty.
In 1922 he was created 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham. After this he did not hold another government post but remained active working on many royal commissions and committees during the 1920's and 1930's. Fareham returned a Tory in all thirteen elections from 1900 to 1945.
Arthur Hamilton Lee was born in Bridport, Dorset in 1868, the half American son of a clergyman. He entered the Royal Artillery in 1888 and served in China, Hong Kong, Canada, Cuba and the United Stares where he became a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt and an honorary member of his Rough Riders. He returned from the army in 1900 and successfully contested four elections in the next ten years. He held the seat until his election to the peerage as Lord Lee of Fareham. In 1917 he and his wife presented the mansion and estate of Chequers in Buckinghamshire on trust to the nation for use of all future Prime Ministers which came into effect from 1921. He died in 1947.
References:
1. Emery, John. 1985. Fareham in old picture postcards, p. 60-63.
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