Samuel Leeke of Havant

Havant

Havant is a town in south east Hampshire on the South coast of England, between Portsmouth and Chichester. It gives its name to the borough comprising the town and the surrounding area. The town has rapidly grown since the end of the Second World War.It has good railway connections to London,...

, was a magistrate

Magistrate

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 and Deputy Lieutenant

Lord Lieutenant

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 for the Hampshire

Hampshire

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.

He was the son of Samuel Leeke, of Portsmouth. Samuel Leeke snr had been bequeathed Portsea

Portsea

Portsea is an area of the English city of Portsmouth, located on Portsea Island, within the ceremonial county of Hampshire.The area was originally known as the Common and lay between the town of Portsmouth and the nearby Dockyard. The Common started to be developed at the end of the seventeenth...

 Manor by the previous owner John Moody; it remains in the Leeke family. Leeke snr was also bequeathed a share of Havant Manor. He died in 1775.

Samuel Leeke married Sophia, daughter of Capt. Richard Bargus of Fareham, Cheltenham

Cheltenham

Cheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...

, RN. She died on 4 April 1847.

Leeke died "from the effects of over-exertion in the suppression of a riot".

Children

• Thomas Samuel - a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy
  Royal Navy
  The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
  
  , killed in action off Cadiz
  Cádiz
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  , November 2, 1810.
• Urania, married Admiral Sir Edward Tucker.
• Ann Sophia
• Henry John
  Henry John Leeke
  Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke KCB KH DL was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Naval Lord, Member of Parliament for Dover and Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire.-Career:...
  
   (later Sir Henry Leeke), Royal Navy Admiral
• William
  William Leeke
  William Leeke was a British Army officer and clergyman, known for his published reminiscences of the Waterloo Campaign, which form a primary source for many modern histories of the campaign.-Early life:...
  
  , Waterloo
  Battle of Waterloo
  The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...
  
  veteran and historian, clergyman
• Emily, married January 8, 1822, Capt. Wilson Braddyll Bigland, R. N

• Sophia

External links

• Details of Samuel Leeke's will