| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Lee of Newton | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | PC |
| Office: | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
| Term Start: | 7 January 1967 |
| Term End: | 6 October 1969 |
| Primeminister: | Harold Wilson |
| Predecessor: | George Thomson |
| Successor: | George Thomson |
| Office1: | Secretary of State for the Colonies |
| Term Start1: | 6 April 1966 |
| Term End1: | 1 August 1966 |
| Primeminister1: | Harold Wilson |
| Predecessor1: | Frank Pakenham |
| Successor1: | Position abolished |
| Office2: | Minister of Power |
| Term Start2: | 18 October 1964 |
| Term End2: | 6 April 1966 |
| Primeminister2: | Harold Wilson |
| Predecessor2: | Frederick Erroll |
| Successor2: | Richard Marsh |
| Office3: | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service |
| Term Start3: | 2 March 1950 |
| Term End3: | 25 October 1951 |
| Primeminister3: | Clement Attlee |
| Predecessor3: | Ness Edwards |
| Successor3: | Peter Bennett |
| Constituency Mp4: | Newton |
| Predecessor4: | Robert Young |
| Successor4: | John Evans |
| Term Start4: | 23 February 1950 |
| Term End4: | 8 February 1974 |
| Constituency Mp5: | Manchester Hulme |
| Predecessor5: | Sir Joseph Nall |
| Successor5: | Constituency abolished |
| Term Start5: | 5 July 1945 |
| Term End5: | 3 February 1950 |
| Birth Date: | 3 August 1906 |
| Birth Place: | Manchester |
| Nationality: | British |
| Party: | Labour |
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton, PC (3 August 1906 – 4 February 1984)[1] was a British Labour Party politician and peer.
Born in Manchester[2] to Joseph and Margaret Lee, he was educated at Langworthy Road School of Engineering. He was Chairman of the Works Committee at Metropolitan-Vickers, Trafford Park, Manchester, and of the National Committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union from 1944 to 1945.Formerly a Member of Salford City Council, at the 1945 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament for Manchester Hulme.[3]
When that constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, he was elected for the Newton constituency in Lancashire, and sat for that constituency until retiring from Parliament at the February 1974 general election.[1] In 1960, on the death of Aneurin Bevan, he stood as a left-wing candidate for Labour's Deputy Leadership against George Brown and James Callaghan. After Callaghan had been eliminated, Lee was defeated by Brown by 146 votes to 83.
He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1948, and held Ministerial office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service from 1950 to 1951, Minister of Power from 1964 to 1966, the last Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1966, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1967 to 1969. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1964, and on his retirement in 1974 was created a life peer on 1 July 1974 as Baron Lee of Newton, of Newton in the County of Merseyside.