Lee was educated at Glebe House, a preparatory school in Hunstanton, and later at Loretto School, a public school in Musselburgh, Scotland, before going up to St John's College, Cambridge. He taught at the University of Cambridge for most of his career, where he was admitted as a fellow of St John's College in 1946.
In the Second World War, Lee joined the British military, and was posted in Iceland, where he learned Icelandic and earned a military award for his work on ciphers. He was later posted to French North Africa, Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Germany. He returned to Cambridge after the war.[1]
In 2001, Lee was asked by professor Pawel J. Jastreboff, and doctor Margaret M. Jastreboff for assistance[2][3] in the naming of a condition exemplified by decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli. The name finally decided upon was misophonia.
Upon returning to Cambridge, Lee served as a librarian, tutor, praelector, and lecturer of classics at various times.[4][5] He died in Cambridge in 2005, and is buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground.
