Lee Steere, Sir Ernest Augustus (1866–1957)
by Wendy Birman
This article was published in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, 1986 online in 2006
Sir Ernest Augustus Lee Steere (1866-1957), pastoralist and businessman, was born on 19 March 1866 near Beverley, Western Australia, son of Augustus Frederick Lee Steere, grazier, and his wife Ellen Elizabeth, née Roe; (Sir) James Lee Steere was an uncle. The family had taken the name of Lee Steere in 1675 as a condition of the marriage between Fiducia Lee and John Steere at
