Mexborough and Swinton Times December 30, 1939

Mexborough Curate.

On Sunday evening at the Parish Church the Vicar, the Rev. E. H. P. Rawlins, bade Godspeed in the name of the congregation to Mr. Harold Lee, a former superintendent of the Sunday School. who was yesterday in Sheffield Cathedral ordained Deacon, and who has been appointed to a curacy, at Woodhouse, Sheffield.

Mr. Lee is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Lee, of 178 Doncaster Road. Mexborough.

He is an old boy of Mexborough Secondary School and of Wakefield Grammar School, and for little over two years has been at St. Aidan’s College. Birkenhead.

He was born at Hull, though the family has lived in Mexborough for twenty years. Mr. Lee has recently passed his last examination before ordination: yesterday he became the Rev. H. Lee. Much of his life has been devoted to church work. He was a member of the Parochial Church Council intermittently for nine years, and has also taught in the Sunday schools.

He formed his own Scout troop which eventually built its headquarters in Dolcliffe Road. He was presented with a gold wristlet watch when he resigned office as Group Scoutmaster to the Rovers. His many Mexborough friends will join with the Vicar in wishing him success.