Photograph of the Revd Lee and Miss Lane at Kingsgate House, Kingsgate Street, Winchester
Taken about 1870
The Reverend Harry Lee and Miss Lane take a break from the popular Victorian pastime of croquet. The Reverend Lee, who lived at Kingsgate House, was one of the Fellows of Winchester College. The original foundation in the late fourteenth century made provision for ten Fellows to assist the Warden in the running of the College as priests and administrators. By the nineteenth century their contribution to the life of the school was slight, and Winchester was one of the establishments targeted by a Royal Commission in the 1860s which resulted in legislation requiring public schools to put the organisation of their governing bodies on a sounder footing.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album entitled 'Hampshire Views of Churches, Country Houses and Public Buildings'.