{{short description |Administrator in British India (died 1757) }} {{About|the administrator and president of Bengal|the United States politician|Jeff Flake (Florida politician)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Samuel Feake | image = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 16 Jun 1757 | death_place = London | other_names = | known_for = President of Bengal | occupation = Colonial Administrator}}

'''Samuel Feake''' (died 16 Jun 1757) was an administrator of the English East India Company. He served as President in the Bay and as Governor and Commander-in-Chief for Fort William.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Provinces of British India |url=https://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_BrProvinces.htm |access-date=2025-10-19 |website=www.worldstatesmen.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tn8dAQAAMAAJ&dq=Samuel+Feake+Fort+William&pg=PA1118 |title=Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review |date=1800 |publisher=F. Jefferies |language=en}}</ref> His son, Charles Feake, was an English physician and Fellow of the Royal Society.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wilson |first=Charles Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-fePAAAAIAAJ&q=Samuel+Feake+Fort+William |title=The Early Annals of the English in Bengal |date=1983 |publisher=Bimla Publishing House |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=William Cooke Taylor|title=Ancient and Modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sm_71j9KYPcC&pg=PA558|year=1851|publisher=James Madden|page=558}}</ref> Feake was appointed Governor of Bengal for the United East India Company on 12 January 1718, succeeding Robert Hedges. He left office on 17 January 1723 and later returned to England due to illness.

==Death== Feake died on 16 June 1757 in London at the age of 75.

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