Samuel Leeke

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. Samuel Leeke snr had been bequeathed Portsea manor by the previous owner John Moody; its manor house remains in the Leeke family. Leeke snr was also bequeathed a share of Havant manor. He died in 1775.
Leeke died "from the effects of over-exertion in the suppression of a riot".

Samuel Leeke married Sophia, daughter of Capt. Richard Bargus of Fareham and Cheltenham, RN. She died on 4 April 1847. Their children were:

• Thomas Samuel – a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, killed in the Napoleonic Wars off Cadiz, 2 November 1810.
• Urania, married Admiral Sir Edward Tucker.
• Ann Sophia
• Henry John (later Sir Henry), Royal Navy Admiral
• William, army officer, Waterloo veteran and historian, clergyman
• Emily, married 8 January 1822, Capt. Wilson Braddyll Bigland, R. N

• Sophia

• Peerage of the House of Commons (1862) p. 191
• Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard; (1847) The Patrician, Published by E. Churton. p. 504
• The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 182, Jan–Jun 1847, Published by F. Jefferies, 1847; p. 563
• The Gentleman's Magazine 1864, p. 673
• The Gentleman's Magazine Vol 92. Pt. 1, 1822, Published by F. Jefferies; p. 176