Stephen Sleech Explained

Stephen Sleech (died 8 October 1765) was an 18th-century Honorary Chaplain to the King who was Provost of Eton College^[1] from 1746 ^[2] until his death.^[3]

Sleech was the son of Richard Sleech, then teaching at Eton College (later a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor).^[4] He was born at Eton, and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1728, BD (per literas regias) in 1743, DD in 1748. He became a Fellow of King's in 1726 and a Fellow of Eton in 1729, and received a Lambeth MA in 1729.

He was Rector of Farnham Royal from 1730 to 1752; and then of Worplesdon, Surrey from 1752 to 1765. He was also chaplain to the King from 1744.

Notes and References

1. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/C7604416?descriptiontype=Full&ref=T+1/353/89 National Archives
2. [Thomas Harwood (priest)|Thomas Harwood]
3. “The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771)” Toynbee,P.J (Ed): Oxford, Clarendon, 1915
4. W. M. Jacob, 'Weston, Stephen (1665–1742)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 July 2013