Ida Lee

{{short description|Australian historian and poet}}

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| birth_name = Ida Louisa Lee

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| birth_place = Kelso, New South Wales, Australia

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| notable_works = Commodore Sir John Hayes, his Voyage and Life (1912)

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Ida Louisa Lee, (11 February 1865 — 3 October 1943), historian and poet, was born at Kelso, New South Wales. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in 1914{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221563960|title=Social Gossip|date=1914-01-11|work=Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954)|access-date=2019-01-20|pages=19}} and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society (Hon. FRAHS). Lee wrote a number of historical texts, some of which contain previously unpublished material.{{Citation|last=Rutledge|first=Martha|title=Lee, Ida Louisa (1865–1943)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lee-ida-louisa-7147|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2018-10-20}}

Lee was the third child of grazier and politician, George Lee, and Louisa (née Kite). On a visit to England, Lee married Charles John Bruce Marriott (1861–1936) on 14 October 1891 at the parish church, Felixstowe, Suffolk.