Samuel Leeke

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. "Kindred Britain - Samuel Leeke". Stanford University. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  2. Dod, Robert P.; The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, 1862, London:Whittaker & Co. p. 362
  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. Pomeroy, Stephen Manors: Bocheland Manor
  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. 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. Peerage of the House of Commons (1862) p. 191
  8. Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard; (1847) The Patrician, Published by E. Churton. p. 504
  9. The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 182, Jan–Jun 1847, Published by F. Jefferies, 1847; p. 563
  10. The Gentleman's Magazine 1864, p. 673
  11. The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 92. Pt. 1, 1822, Published by F. Jefferies; p. 176
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