Family and Education
b. 6 Nov. 1682, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton Par. Reg. 1662-1837 ed. P. Kettle and P. Riden, (Derbys. Rec. Soc. xviii), 65. 1st s. of Hon. Richard Leke and Mary, 2nd da. of Sir John Molyneux‡, 3rd bt., of Teversall, Notts. educ. travelled abroad (Austria, Germany and Italy) 1702-3; Beinecke Lib. OSB mss 2, box 9, folder 182, no. 137, George Stepney to Blathwayt, 2 Dec. 1702; UNL, Portland mss PwA/113. ?Oxf. DCL 26 Apr. 1706. unm. d. 17 July 1736; will 30 Aug. 1734, pr. 7 Dec. 1736. TNA, PROB 11/678.
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Ld. lt. Derbys. 1711 – 14.
Amb. to Vienna 1712 (did not go).
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Associated with: Sutton-in-Scarsdale, Derbys. and Duke Street, Westminster.London Mag. 1736, 400.;
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