• Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke, KCB, KH, DL (1 September 1792 – 26 February 1870) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Naval Lord, Member of...
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  • and scholar Ferdinand Leeke (1859–1923), German painter George Leeke (died 1939), Irish nationalist politician Henry Alan Leeke (1879–1915), British track...
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  • Henry Leeke or Leek may refer to: Henry Leeke (athlete) (died 1922), Cambridge athlete Henry Alan Leeke (1879–1915), British track and field athlete and...
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    John Cox Leeke (1843 – 28 November 1919) was an Anglican bishop, the inaugural Bishop of Woolwich from 1905 to 1918. The son of William Leeke, perpetual...
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  • Samuel Leeke, of Portsmouth. Samuel Leeke snr had been bequeathed Portsea manor by the previous owner John Moody; its manor house remains in the Leeke family...
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    p. 429. Day. p. 429. "Letter from William Bruce, Resident at Bushire to Henry Meriton, Superintendent of the HC Marine, Bombay (1822)". Qatar Digital...
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    Burgoyne, while serving as the flagship of Samuel Pym, Plymouth; Captain Henry John Leeke; and Captain Thomas Maitland, as the flagship of Admiral William Hall...
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  • Richard Bargus, R.N. His elder brother Sir Henry John Leeke rose to the rank of admiral in the Royal Navy. Leeke's eldest brother Thomas Samuel had also served...
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    Baron Aylmer (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1718 Knighted 1761 Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844–1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed...
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    "United Kingdom: The Royal Guelphic Order". Medals of the World. Mussell, John, ed. (2014). The Medal Yearbook 2015. Devon, UK: Token Publishing Ltd. p...
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    he became a lieutenant while serving in HMS Myrmidon under Captain Henry John Leeke. He again served in the Iphigenia on 19 June, and in HMS Hussar under...
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  • Lord The Hon. Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, Second Naval Lord Sir Henry John Leeke, Third Naval Lord Alexander Milne, Fourth Naval Lord The Hon. Frederick...
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    Edith Bernal Osborne (1846–1926), who married, as his second wife, Sir Henry Arthur Blake, the son of Peter Blake of Corbally Castle, in 1874. Grace...
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    year Thomas Leeke, then incarcerated in the Fleet Prison, wrote to his brother Sir John on 25 October that year and reported that Henry Clifford the...
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    commissioned on 16 July 1824. At this time she was rated a yacht. Commander Henry John Leeke recommissioned her on 31 May 1824. He sailed her to St Petersburg,...
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    "Thomas Griffin (1692–1771)". threedecks.org. Laughton, John Knox (1895). "Osborne, Henry" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography...
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    was recommissioned on 26 March 1818, under the command of Commander Henry John Leeke, for service on the Africa Station and was decommissioned at its end...
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  • Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded by William Nicol Henry John Leeke Member of Parliament for Dover 1865 – 1889 With: Charles Freshfield to 1868...
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    Elizabeth Hardwick was the daughter of John Hardwick of Derbyshire by his wife Elizabeth Leeke, daughter of Thomas Leeke and Margaret Fox. Her exact birthdate...
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  • Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3) Mair, Robert Henry (1870). Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870...
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    and the adjacent Hensol Castle, a conference and wedding venue. James Henry Leeke established Leekes as a blacksmith in Tonypandy in the Rhondda Valley...
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    Gregory 1679–1686: Sir Edward Atkyns 8 May 1679 – 22 June 1679: William Leeke 1679–1680: Thomas Raymond 1680–1681: Richard Weston 1681–1684: Sir Thomas...
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  • Thomas Leeke Massie (20 October 1802 – 20 July 1898) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who rose to the rank of admiral. He was born at Coddington Hall...
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    William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    (1617–1684) Charles Cavendish (1620–1643) Henry Cavendish (died April 1620) Linehan, Peter (2011). St John's College, Cambridge: A History. Boydell Press...
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  • Abergavenny in 1845. He married Caroline Leeke (d. 9 May 1873) on 7 September 1824, daughter of Ralph Leeke of Longford Hall, Shropshire, and they had...
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  • the war. They included - Gerard Anderson Henry Ashington Hanns Braun Juho Halme George Hutson Henry Alan Leeke Georg Mickler Imre Mudin Alan Patterson...
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    went to chapel. In March 1608 Anne of Denmark, Prince Henry, and Arbella's friend the courtier John Elphinstone wrote to her at Sheffield to request that...
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  • from 6 December 1847 in the San Josef, both under the command of Sir Henry John Leeke in the Channel Fleet. From 7 January 1848, he moved into Wellesley...
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    and was named St Saviour’s and St Olave’s Grammar School for Girls. Henry Leeke, a Southwark brewer, left a will (13 April 1560) which gave £8 a year...
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  • Chapel within the Church of St John the Baptist, Staveley, survives a fine heraldic stained glass window, made in 1676 by Henry Gyles of York, in memory of...
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