Samuel_Leeke

Samuel Leeke

Samuel Leeke

British landowner

Samuel Leeke (1754–1806)[1] JP of Havant, was Deputy Lieutenant for the Hampshire a major landowner and magistrate who died joining others in quelling a riot.

He was the son of Samuel Leeke, of Portsmouth.[2] Samuel Leeke snr had been bequeathed Portsea manor by the previous owner John Moody; its manor house remains in the Leeke family.[3][4] Leeke snr was also bequeathed a share of Havant manor.[5] He died in 1775.[5]

Leeke died "from the effects of over-exertion in the suppression of a riot".[6]

Family

Samuel Leeke married Sophia, daughter of Capt. Richard Bargus of Fareham and Cheltenham, RN.[7] She died on 4 April 1847.[8] Their children were:

  • Thomas Samuel – a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, killed in the Napoleonic Wars off Cadiz, 2 November 1810.[9]
  • Urania, married Admiral Sir Edward Tucker.[10]
  • Ann Sophia
  • Henry John (later Sir Henry), Royal Navy Admiral
  • William, army officer, Waterloo veteran and historian, clergyman
  • Emily, married 8 January 1822, Capt. Wilson Braddyll Bigland, R. N[11]
  • Sophia

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Kindred Britain - Samuel Leeke". Stanford University. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  2. [2]
    Dod, Robert P.; The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, 1862, London:Whittaker & Co. p. 362
  3. [3]
    'The liberty of Portsmouth and Portsea Island: Manors, churches and charities', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 (1908), pp. 192–202 Date accessed: 10 September 2008.
  4. [4]
    Pomeroy, Stephen Manors: Bocheland Manor
  5. [5]
    Longcroft, Charles John;A Topographical Account of the Hundred of Bosmere, in the County of Southampton Including the Parishes of Havant, Warblington, and Hayling, Published by J.R. Smith, 1857, p. 18
  6. [6]
    J. K. Laughton, ‘Leeke, Sir Henry John (1794–1870)’, rev. Roger T. Stearn, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2005, accessed 9 September 2008
  7. [7]
    Peerage of the House of Commons (1862) p. 191
  8. [8]
    Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard; (1847) The Patrician, Published by E. Churton. p. 504
  9. [9]
    The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 182, Jan–Jun 1847, Published by F. Jefferies, 1847; p. 563
  10. [10]
    The Gentleman's Magazine 1864, p. 673
  11. [11]
    The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 92. Pt. 1, 1822, Published by F. Jefferies; p. 176
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