 He was a staunch Tory and followed James II to Rochester, Kent after the king's escape from Whitehall in December 1688.His subsidiary titles were Viscount Quarendon and Baron Spelsbury.Edward Lee was the son of Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet of Quarendon and his wife Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe, who was later third wife of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey.