Background
Gee was the son of Mr. William Gee, of Mortlake, Surrey, and was born in 1817.
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Richard Gee
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He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford where he received his ordination in 1840, and graduated Bachelor in 1840 and Master of Arts in 1843.
Career
His former college appointed him a Doctor of Divinity (Doctor of Divinity) in 1867. He had a long ecclesiastical career in Hertfordshire, where he was Vicar of Abbots Langley from 1844 to 1878. The Bishop of Street Albans appointed him Honorary Canon of Street Alban’s Cathedral in 1865, and he served as Proctor of Saint Alban′s Diocese 1874-1880.
In 1878 he was appointed Vicar of New Windsor, serving as such until he was appointed Canon of Windsor by Queen Victoria in 1894.
He was appointed to the fifth stall in Street George"s Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1894 and held this until he died in 1902. Gee married, in 1841, Marianne Jackson, daughter of Captain R. North. Jackson, Registered Nurse. The eldest daughter Evelyn Gee became the wife of Sir Richard Rivington Holmes, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1835-1911), Librarian at Windsor Castle.
