Knight & Lee is a department store in Southsea, Hampshire, England. The store was acquired by the John Lewis Partnership in 1934.The store's origins can be traced back to 1831 with the lace business conducted by William Wink near Portsea Docks. The shop was taken over by Frederick Wink in 1865 to trade as Wink & Co. The business moved to its present Palmerston Road site in 1874 and was bought by Jesse Knight and Herbert Soden Lee, two experienced drapers from London, in 1887. Knight & Lee was made a private company two years later.