Geoffrey Trollope Lee (1879 - 1941)

Born 29 Oct 1879 in London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Helen (Vinogradoff) Lee — married about 1929 in England

Descendants

Died 12 Mar 1941 at age 61 in London, England

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Biography

Geoffrey Trollope Lee was born in England on October 29, 1879 to his parents Ellis Lee and Constance (Trollope) Lee. After school, Geoffrey joined the military and eventually achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps. LTC Lee served during World War I as a part of the 46th Battalion under Brigadier General Duncan Glassfurd alongside the 12th Australian Infantry, 4th Australian Division, between 1914 and 1916. After the war, he met and later married the Contessa Estella Marie Carandini di Sarazano. Around 1917, his first child (Xandra Lee) was born, and later in 1922, his second and last child (Christopher Lee) was born. Geoffrey and Marie divorced in 1926, and he later met and married Helen Vinogradoff in 1929. There were no children from his second marriage. Geoffrey passed away in 1941 of double pneumonia and pleurisy.

Family Members

Parents

Ellis Lee 1842 –

Constance Helen Trollope 1847 –

Spouse & Children

Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano 1889 – 1981

Christopher Lee 1922-

Xandra Carandini Lee 1917 – 2002

Sources

• London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 about Geoffrey Trollope Lee

Name: Geoffrey Trollope Lee Record Type: Baptism Baptism Date: 29 Oct 1879 Father's Name: Ellis Lee Mother's name: Constance Helen Lee Parish or Poor Law Union: Streatham St Leonard Borough: Lambeth Register Type: Parish Registers Source Citation: London Metropolitan Archives, St Leonard, Streatham, Register of baptisms, May 1850-Oct 1882, p95/len/066.

• England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 about Geoffrey Trollope Lee

Name: Geoffrey Trollope Lee Registration Year: 1879 Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec Registration district: St George Hanover Square Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District Inferred County: London Volume: 1a Page: 403 Source Information: FreeBMD. England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.

• Ancestry Family Trees

This citation provides evidence for Geoffrey Trollope Lee

• "England, London Electoral Registers, 1847-1913," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QJFT-BKTY : accessed 12 December 2014), Geoffrey Trollope Lee, 1913; citing Borough of Woolwich, London, England, London Metropolitan Archives, London; FHL microfilm 2,356,644.

• "England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2XFR-Q88 : accessed 12 December 2014), Geoffrey Trollope Lee, 1879.