Biography | Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge PC (3 November 1904 16 November 1988) was born Janet Lee in Lochgelly, in Fife, Scotland. The daughter of James Lee, a miner (who later gave up work in the mines to run a hotel) and Euphemia Grieg, she inherited her father's socialist inclinations, and like him joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP). |