Lee was educated at
Reading School,
Christ's College, Cambridge and the
School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. He became a barrister, called to the bar in 1960 at
Middle Temple. From 1951 to 1958 he worked in the Colonial Service in the
Gold Coast, now
Ghana. Later he worked in the Ministry of Communications, then in 1959 joined the
BBC legal department. By this time he had left the Labour Party, resigning in 2003. Lee married Margaret Russell in 1960; they had two children. He died on 14 April 2020 at the age of 92. ==References==