About the Author

Rev. Prof. Francis Nigel Lee


Dr. Francis Nigel Lee was born in 1934 in the Westmorland County of Cumbria (in Great Britain). He is the great-grandson of a fiery preacher whose family disintegrated when he backslid. Though Dr. Lee's father was an Atheist, he married a Roman Catholic who raised her son in that faith. At the onset of the Second World War, Dr. Lee's father was appointed by the Royal Navy as Chief Radar Officer (South Atlantic). So the family then moved to South Africa. There Dr. Lee became a Calvinist; had the great joy of leading both of his parents to Christ; and became Minister of God's Word and Sacraments in the Reformed Church of Natal.

Emigrating to the U.S.A., he attended the very first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America; transferred his previous ministerial credentials to that denomination, and pastored congregations in Mississippi and Florida. He was also: Professor of Philosophy at Shelton College in New Jersey; Research Scholar in Residence at the Christian Studies Center in Memphis; and Academic Dean of Graham Bible College in Bristol Tennessee. He was then the only person in the World serving on the Executives of both the British Lord's Day Alliance (headquartered in London) and the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States (headquartered in Atlanta).

Preacher, theologian, lawyer, educationist, historian, philosopher and author, Lee has produced more than 300 publications (including many books) and also a multitude of long unpublished manuscripts. In addition to an honorary LL.D., he has twenty earned degrees including some ten earned doctorates awarded for dissertations in law, literature, philosophy and theology. His latest major work is a dissertation of more than 800 pages on Tiny Human Life: against abortion, AID, AIH, SHW, IVF and human cloning.

Dr. Lee rises early; reads God's Word in eight languages; then walks a couple of miles before breakfast. He has been round the World some six or seven times; has visited eighty eight countries (several repeatedly); and has visited every Continent. He continues to be in demand as a promoter of doctoral students in Australia, Britain, South Africa & the United States.

A diehard predestinarian and unreconstructed Southerner, Dr. Lee is affectionately nicknamed "General Lee" by his closest friends. Now in Australia, he is the Professor of Systematic Theology and Caldwell-Morrow Lecturer in Church History at the Queensland Presbyterian Theological Hall. His wife Nellie is in Fulltime Christian Service as a godly Homemaker. Their elder daughter Johanna teaches English, German and Modern History in Brisbane, at Parkridge High School. Their younger daughter Annamarie (whom Dr. Lee baptized as a baby in 1970) is now Secretary/Librarian at the Queensland Presbyterian Theological Hall, Brisbane, Australia.

Earned Doctorates
Th.D.:The Covenantal SabbathUniversity of Stellenbosch
Ph.D.:Communist EschatologyOrange Free State University
D.Min.:Daily Family WorshipWhitefield Theological Seminary
D.Ed.:Catechism Before Communion!Dominion School of Education
S.T.D.:Rebaptism Impossible!Whitefield Theological Seminary
D.R.E.:Baby Belief Before Baptism!Dominion School of Education
D.Jur.:Women Ministers & Australian LitigationRutherford School of Law
D.Litt.:Holinshed on the Ancient British IslesDominion School of Education
D.C.L.:The Roots and Fruits of the Common LawRutherford School of Law
D.Hum.:Tiny Human Life: abortion, AID, AIH, SHW, IVF and cloningWhitefield Theological Seminary


Other Degrees
B.A.:University of Capetown
LL.B.:University of Capetown
M.A.:University of Capetown
L.Th. (cum laude):University of Stellenbosch
B.D. (cum laude):University of Stellenbosch
M.Th. (cum laude):University of Stellenbosch
M.A. & Cultural Sc.:Potchefstroom University

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