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NameRev Henry Sleech 
[23, Rhodes article, Sleech sub-article, vol 3, pp. 571-3], [70, Vol 54 for 1874, his obit p. 238]
[23, Rhodes article, Sleech sub-article, vol 3, pp. 571-3], [70, Vol 54 for 1874, his obit p. 238]Death13 Mar 1784, Eton, Bucks
GeneralFellow of Eton. Rector of Hitcham, Bucks.
EducationEton
FatherRev Richard Sleech (-1729)
MotherElizabeth Upman
Spouses
Notes for Rev Henry Sleech
See Thomas Harwood’s “Alumni Etonienses”, p. 96, on Fellows of Eton Collete:
“HENRY SLEECH, March 22 1775. He was the son of Dr Richard Sleech, Canon of Windsor, and Fellow of Eton, and brother of Stephen Sleech, Provost of Eton. He was a dmitted into King’s College in 1741; was A.B. 1745; A.M. 1749. He was Rector of Hitcham, in Buckinghamshire, of which parish his father was also rector. He was many years and assistant at Eton, and succeeded Dr Dampier in the Under mastership in 1767. In these several functions he was universally esteemed, particularly by his scholars, for his uncommon good-nature and lenity towards them. He married Miss Arabella Cooke, sister of the present Provost of King’s; by whom he left two daughters, one of whom married Dr Dampier, of the year 1766, the present Dean of Rochester.”
That his wife was Arabella Cooke is at variance with my earlier information that she was a daughter of one Yonge. May 2012: The majority information is that his wife was isabella Cooke, to which I have now corrected this database.
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“HENRY SLEECH, March 22 1775. He was the son of Dr Richard Sleech, Canon of Windsor, and Fellow of Eton, and brother of Stephen Sleech, Provost of Eton. He was a dmitted into King’s College in 1741; was A.B. 1745; A.M. 1749. He was Rector of Hitcham, in Buckinghamshire, of which parish his father was also rector. He was many years and assistant at Eton, and succeeded Dr Dampier in the Under mastership in 1767. In these several functions he was universally esteemed, particularly by his scholars, for his uncommon good-nature and lenity towards them. He married Miss Arabella Cooke, sister of the present Provost of King’s; by whom he left two daughters, one of whom married Dr Dampier, of the year 1766, the present Dean of Rochester.”
That his wife was Arabella Cooke is at variance with my earlier information that she was a daughter of one Yonge. May 2012: The majority information is that his wife was isabella Cooke, to which I have now corrected this database.
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