Samuel Leeke (1754–1806) 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.Dod, Robert P.; The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, 1862, London:Whittaker & Co. p. 362 Samuel Leeke snr had been bequeathed Portsea manor by the previous owner John Moody; its manor house remains in the Leeke family.'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 Leeke snr was also bequeathed a share of Havant manor.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 He died in 1775.
Leeke died "from the effects of over-exertion in the suppression of a riot".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
Family Samuel Leeke married Sophia, daughter of Capt. Richard Bargus of Fareham and Cheltenham, RN.Peerage of the House of Commons (1862) p. 191 She died on 4 April 1847.Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard; (1847) The Patrician, Published by E. Churton. p. 504 Their children were:
Thomas Samuel – a Lieutenant in the Royal NavyThe Gentleman's Magazine Vol 182, Jan–Jun 1847, Published by F. Jefferies, 1847; p. 563 UraniaThe Gentleman's Magazine 1864, p. 673 Ann Sophia Henry John (later Sir Henry), Royal Navy Admiral William, army officer, Waterloo veteran and historian, clergyman EmilyVol 92. Pt. 1, 1822, Published by F. Jefferies; p. 176 Sophia
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External links Details of Samuel Leeke's will