sentences:  Lees was elected to the House of Commons for Oldham in 1886, a seat he held until 1892, and later represented Birkenhead from 1894 to 1906.In 1897 he was created a Baronet, of South Lytchett Manor in Lytchett Minster in the County of Dorset.Lees was an officer in the Dorsetshire Yeomanry.