{{Short description|British landowner}} {{Use British English|date=September 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} '''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.<ref>Dod, Robert P.; [https://books.google.com/books?id=B-ANAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Samuel+Leeke%22+%22Isle+of+Wight%22&pg=PA362 ''The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, 1862''], London:Whittaker & Co. p. 362</ref> Samuel Leeke snr had been bequeathed Portsea manor by the previous owner John Moody; its manor house remains in the Leeke family.<ref>'The liberty of Portsmouth and Portsea Island: Manors, churches and charities', [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41953 A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 (1908), pp. 192–202] Date accessed: 10 September 2008.</ref><ref>Pomeroy, Stephen [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephen.pomeroy/local/manors.pdf Manors: Bocheland Manor]</ref> Leeke snr was also bequeathed a share of Havant manor.<ref name="Longcroft">Longcroft, Charles John;[https://books.google.com/books?id=MmABAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Samuel+Leeke%22+%22John+Moody%22&pg=RA1-PA18 ''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</ref> He died in 1775.<ref name="Longcroft"/>
Leeke died "from the effects of over-exertion in the suppression of a riot".<ref>J. K. Laughton, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16328 ‘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</ref>
==Family== Samuel Leeke married Sophia, daughter of Capt. Richard Bargus of Fareham and Cheltenham, RN.<ref>''Peerage of the House of Commons'' (1862) [https://books.google.com/books?id=AecNAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Samuel+Leeke%22+Sophia&pg=PA191 p. 191]</ref> She died on 4 April 1847.<ref>Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard; (1847) [https://books.google.com/books?id=4NsYAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22samuel+Leeke%22+william&pg=PA504 ''The Patrician''], Published by E. Churton. p. 504</ref> Their children were: *Thomas Samuel – a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy<ref>''The Gentleman's Magazine'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=svZYCKZhW1sC&dq=%22samuel+Leeke%22+william&pg=PA563 Vol 182, Jan–Jun 1847], Published by F. Jefferies, 1847; p. 563</ref> *Urania<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cOEhAAAAMAAJ&dq=Edward+Tucker+Leeke&pg=PA673 ''The Gentleman's Magazine 1864'', p. 673]</ref> *Ann Sophia *Henry John (later Sir Henry), Royal Navy Admiral *William, army officer, Waterloo veteran and historian, clergyman *Emily<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bQ6IjTMlnyUC&dq=%22samuel+Leeke%22+william&pg=PA176 Vol 92. Pt. 1, 1822], Published by F. Jefferies; p. 176</ref> *Sophia
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==External links== *[http://calm.hants.gov.uk/DServeA/cgi-bin/CIdleTcl.exe?dsqServer=ist-iis02&dsqIni=DServe.ini&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo%3D%3D%2786102/257%27 Details of Samuel Leeke's will]
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