Memorial: M4248

Tomb at St Dunstan’s Church, Stepney commemorating Rear-Admiral Sir John Leake d. 1720

Location

St Dunstan's Church, Stepney, London, England

Transcript

'To the memory of the Honourable Sir John Leake, Knt, Rear Admiral of Great Britain, Admiral and Commander in Chief of her late Majesty Queen Anne's fleet and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; departed this life the 21st August 1720, aetat 64 years, one month seventeen days; who anno 1689 in the Dartmouth by engaging Kilmore Castle, relieved the city of Londonderry in Ireland, also anno 1702, with a squadron at New Foundland, he took and destroyed fifty-one sail of French, together with all their settlements. Anno 1704 he forced the van of the French fleet at the Malaga engagement; relieved Gibraltar twice, burning and taking thirteen sail of French men of war; likewise; anno 1706, relieved Barcelona, the present Emperor of Germany besieged therein by Phillip of Spain, and took ninety sail of corn ships, the same year taking the cities of Carthagena and Alicant, with the islands of Ivica, Majorca, Sardinia and Minorca'

Details

Description: Chest-tomb with curved ends. Curved ends, carved scrolls at the end of the sides. The sides are now plain.
Type: Chest-tomb
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Limestone

People

Leake, John
Age: 64
Date of Death: 21/8/1720
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral. Commissioner of the Admiralty
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: See NMM 400/2/38 notes, tomb in poor repair.
Bibliography: A.E. Daniell 'London Riverside Churches' (London, 1897) p. 269.
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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