Arthur Lee
1740 – 1792
A member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia, Arthur Lee (1740-1792) was educated at Eton College in England and later studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and law in London.
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He also represented American interests in Europe, serving in that capacity alongside Franklin in London for a time, as well as in Spain and Prussia. He returned to Virginia to briefly represent his state in Congress. Like Jefferson and Franklin, he saw slavery as an evil fostered by imperial policy. Scholars generally attribute authorship of An Essay In Vindication Of The Continental Colonies Of America, from A Cenfure of Mr Adam Smith, in his Theory of Moral Sentiments to him.
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