John Leeke
Religious Leader
1843 – 1919
Who was John Leeke?
John Cox Leeke was an Anglican bishop, the inaugural Bishop of Woolwich from 1905 to 1918.
The son of the Revd William Leeke, he was born in Holbrooke, Derbyshire in 1843. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1867. He began his career with a curacy at Wanstead after which he was appointed Rector of Kidbrook. Appointed Rural Dean of Woolwich in 1892 and then an Honorary Canon of Rochester Cathedral in 1900, he was one of three Suffragans appointed in 1905 to assist the Bishop of Southwark. He married the daughter of John Meynell, of Meynell Langley.
"An earnest and faithful worker, kind and sympathetic", he died on 28 November 1919, leaving two sons and one daughter.
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