When Earl Edward Henry Lee 1st of Lichfield was born on 4 February 1663, in Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England, his father, Sir Francis Henry Lee 3rd Baronet Of Quarendom, was 24 and his mother, Lady Elizabeth Pope, was 17. He married Lady Charlotte Fitzroy Countess of Lichfield on 6 February 1677, in London, Middlesex, England. They were the parents of at least 12 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 14 July 1716, in Greenwich, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 53, and was buried in Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.