Background
The son of Ralph Gee of Manchester, he entered Merton College, Oxford as servitor, on 22 February 1583.
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Edward Gee
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He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1586, and then after two years was elected fellow of Brasenose.
Career
Later he was at Lincoln College and Brasenose College. In 1590 he proceeded Master of Arts, in 1598 was chosen proctor of the university, in 1600 took the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, and in 1616 became Doctor of Divinity
On 19 September 1599 Gee was instituted rector of Tedburn Saint Mary in Devon, on the presentation of the Queen. Lord Chancellor Egerton made him his chaplain, and presented him in 1616 to a prebend in Exeter Cathedral.
Gee died at Tedburn, in the winter of 1618.
Gee"s wife Jane died at Tedburn in 1613, and a lengthy epitaph was on a brass removed in the 19th century (published in John Prince"s Worthies of Devon, and Richard Polwhele"s History of Devonshire).
