Fitzroy Henry Lee

= Biography = Born 2 Jan. 1698/99 in Oxfordshire

Father
Lord Edward Henry Lee, 2nd Baron Spilsbury, Viscount Quarendon and Earl of Litchfield (4 February 1662/1663 – 14 July 1716)

Grandfather: Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet, of Quarendon, later of Ditchley (17 January 1639/1640 - 4 December 1667)

Grandmother: Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe

Mother
Lady Charlotte FitzRoy (5 September 1664 - 17 February 1717/18)

Grandfather: HM Charles II Stuart, King of Great Britain (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1684/1685)

Grandmother: Lady Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (17 November 1640 – 9 October 1709)

Siblings
1. Edward Lee * post 1678

2. Anne Lee * post 1678

3. Charlotte Lee 1678 - 1720

4. James Lee * 1682

5. Francis Lee * 1684

6. Charles Lee * 1688

7. George Henry Lee 1689 - 1743

8. Lady Barbara Lee * 1696

9. Robert Henry Lee 1706 - 1776

Naval Career
On my 17th Birthday (2 Jan. 1715/1716), I was sent on board the Launceston as a "volunteer-per-order". She was a 1706 Establishment 42-Gunner Fifth Rate, Captain Thomas Willyams commanding then lying at Woolwich. Built in the Portsmouth Dockyard, she was launched on 17 Oct 1711 and commissioned for the Mediterranean.

While on station in the Med, it seems my Captain made himself more conspicuous for benevolence than discretion. Hearing that a poor Jew was to be the subject of an auto da fe, he landed his boats' crew and carried off the unfortunate creature out of the power of his tormentors. The Spanish government preferring a complaint, he was ordered home and deprived of his command, but, by the favour of the Queen, was soon afterwards reinstated.

I underwent the usual training until July, when the Launceston was paid off. Captain Willyams went on half-pay awaiting his next command, but I was retained as part of her crew during the subsequent "minor repairs" and outfitting until she was re-commissioned April 1717 for the Baltic under Captain Robert Chadwick.

West Indies
= Arms and Ensigns =



= Current Squadron =

Active
Flagship: HMS Phoenix, "Reason" Class 4th Rate

HMS Spanish Prize, "San Fernando" Class 4th Rate

HMS Quarendon, "Mercy" Class Naval Frigate

HMS Spelsbury, "Dauntless" Class Frigate

HMS Celebre, "Capricieux" Class Mastercraft Frigate

In Ordinary
HMS Lichfield, "Dauntless" Class Frigate

HMS Panther, "Tigre" Class Mastercraft Frigate

HMS Greyhound, "Gallant" Class Naval Frigate

HMS Seaford, "Raa" Class Mastercraft Frigate

HMS Osprey, "Falcon" Class Naval Frigate

HMS Uhlan, "Lancer" Class Naval Cutter

Personal
Fancy, Bermuda Class Mastercraft Sloop