Samuel Leeke

Samuel Leeke (1754–1806) 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.^[1] Samuel Leeke snr had been bequeathed Portsea manor by the previous owner John Moody; its manor house remains in the Leeke family.^[2]^[3] Leeke snr was also bequeathed a share of Havant manor.^[4] He died in 1775.^[4]

Leeke died "from the effects of over-exertion in the suppression of a riot".^[5]

Family

Samuel Leeke married Sophia, daughter of Capt. Richard Bargus of Fareham and Cheltenham, RN.^[6] She died on 4 April 1847.^[7] Their children were:

Thomas Samuel – a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, killed in the Napoleonic Wars off Cadiz, 2 November 1810.^[8]
Urania, married Admiral Sir Edward Tucker.^[9]
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^[10]

Sophia

Notes

^ Dod, Robert P.; The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, 1862, London:Whittaker & Co. p. 362
^ '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.
^ Pomeroy, Stephen Manors: Bocheland Manor
^ ^a ^b 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
^ 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
^ Peerage of the House of Commons (1862) p. 191
^ Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard; (1847) The Patrician, Published by E. Churton. p. 504
^ The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 182, Jan–Jun 1847, Published by F. Jefferies, 1847; p. 563
^ The Gentleman's Magazine 1864, p. 673
^ The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 92. Pt. 1, 1822, Published by F. Jefferies; p. 176

External links

Details of Samuel Leeke's will

[1] Dod, Robert P.; The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, 1862, London:Whittaker & Co. p. 362

[2] '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.

[3] Pomeroy, Stephen Manors: Bocheland Manor

[Longcroft-4] 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

[5] 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

[6] Peerage of the House of Commons (1862) p. 191

[7] Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard; (1847) The Patrician, Published by E. Churton. p. 504

[8] The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 182, Jan–Jun 1847, Published by F. Jefferies, 1847; p. 563

[9] The Gentleman's Magazine 1864, p. 673

[10] The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 92. Pt. 1, 1822, Published by F. Jefferies; p. 176

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