Samuel Leeke
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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
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- ↑ 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
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