# Samuel Feake

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{{short description |Administrator in British India (died 1757) }}
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| name        = Samuel Feake
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| death_date  = 16 Jun 1757
| death_place = [London](/source/London)
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| known_for   = President of [Bengal](/source/Bengal)
| occupation  = Colonial Administrator}}

'''Samuel Feake''' (died 16 Jun 1757) was an administrator of the [English East India Company](/source/British_East_India_Company). He served as President in the Bay and as Governor and [Commander-in-Chief](/source/Commander-in-chief) for [Fort William](/source/Fort_William%2C_India).<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](/source/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](/source/Governor_of_Bengal) for the United East India Company on 12 January 1718, succeeding [Robert Hedges](/source/Robert_Hedges_(colonial_administrator)). He left office on 17 January 1723 and later returned to [England](/source/England) due to illness.

==Death==
Feake died on 16 June 1757 in [London](/source/London) at the age of 75.

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{{succession box |title=President of Bengal|
years=12 January 1718 – 17 January 1723|
before= [Robert Hedges](/source/Robert_Hedges_(colonial_administrator))| 
after=[John Deane](/source/John_Deane_(colonial_administrator))}}

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