Samuel Leeke Explained

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

External links

• Details of Samuel Leeke's will

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kindred Britain - Samuel Leeke. Stanford University. 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]
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. https://books.google.com/books?id=cOEhAAAAMAAJ&dq=Edward+Tucker+Leeke&pg=PA673 The Gentleman's Magazine 1864, p. 673
11. The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 92. Pt. 1, 1822, Published by F. Jefferies; p. 176