Henry Washington Lee

Henry W. Lee
I Bishop of Iowa

Church	Episcopal Church (USA)
Diocese	Diocese of Iowa
In office	October 18, 1854 – September 26, 1874
Successor	William Stevens Perry
Orders
Ordination	October, 1839 by Alexander Viets Griswold
Consecration	October 18, 1854 by John Henry Hopkins
Personal details
Born	July 29, 1815 Hamden, Connecticut, USA
Died	September 26, 1874 Davenport, Iowa, USA

Henry Washington Lee (July 29, 1815 – September 26, 1874) was a 19th-century bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He served as the first Bishop of Iowa from 1854–1874. He also served as Provisional Bishop of Nebraska from 1857–1859 and Provisional Bishop of Kansas, 1860–1864.

Lee was born in Hamden, Connecticut, but the family soon moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he grew up and was educated. His father was Roswell Lee, who was a colonel and the superintendent of the Springfield Armory. He was ordained a deacon at Grace Church in New Bedford, Massachusetts and a priest in the Episcopal Church by Alexander Viets Griswold in October, 1839. That same year he married Lydia Mason Morton of Tauton, Massachusetts. They raised two sons and a daughter. He spent four years as rector of Christ Church in Springfield, and eleven years as rector of St. Luke's Church in Rochester, New York. He received a Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree from Hobart College in 1850, and the University of Rochester in 1852. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)from the University of Cambridge, England in 1867.