Sir Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (30 August 1908 – 8 December 1993) was an English classical scholar specialising in ancient philosophy who became a Fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University, a lecturer in the university, and then Headmaster successively of Clifton College and Winchester College, before ending his career back at Cambridge University as President of Hughes Hall. Early life Born in Nottingham, the son of the Rev. Canon Henry Burgass Lee, the young Lee was educated at Arden House, then at Repton School, where he held the George Denman scholarship, before going on to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was again a scholar and gained a Double First, with Firsts in Part 1 of the Classical Tripos in 1928 and in Part 2 in 1930. He also gained a Charles Oldham scholarship. While he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge, Lee became a friend of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), in 1930 staying with the Wittgenstein family in Austria. Many years later, in editing Wittgenstein's Lectures: Cambridge, 1930–1932, Lee wrote an account of their friendship, which came to an end after the focus of Lee's academic career turned to ancient philosophy. His other friends during this period included William Empson. Career Lee was elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1933. The same year, he was admitted to the Middle Temple, but he did not go on to practice as a barrister. From 1935 to 1948 he was also a college tutor, from 1937 to 1948 a University Lecturer in Classics, and in 1944 he became a member of the University's Council of the Senate, serving until 1948. From 1941 until 1944, during the Second World War, he also worked in the Regional Commissioner's Office at Cambridge, assisting Will Spens. In 1948, by which time he had become Senior Tutor of his college, Lee was persuaded to go to Clifton College as Headmaster, and in 1954 proceeded from there to serve as head of Winchester College, where he remained until 1968. In 1958–59 he was a member of the Anderson Committee on Grants to Students and was twice Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference, first in 1959–1960 and again in 1967. In 1968 he returned to Cambridge as a Fellow of University College (which was renamed Wolfson College in 1973). In 1973, he became President of Hughes Hall, serving until 1978, when he