Samuel Leeke of Havant, was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for the Hampshire.
He was the son of Samuel Leeke, of Portsmouth. Samuel Leeke snr had been bequeathed Portsea Manor by the previous owner John Moody; it remains in the Leeke family. Leeke snr was also bequeathed a share of Havant Manor. He died in 1775.
Samuel Leeke married Sophia, daughter of Capt. Richard Bargus of Fareham, Cheltenham, RN. She died on 4 April 1847.
Leeke died "from the effects of over-exertion in the suppression of a riot".
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