Stephen Sleech

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Stephen Sleech (died 8 October 1765) was an 18th-century Honorary Chaplain to the King who was Provost of Eton College [1] from 1746 [2] until his death. [3]

Sleech was the son of Richard Sleech, then teaching at Eton College (later a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor). [4] He was born at Eton, and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1728, BD ( per literas regias ) in 1743, DD in 1748. He became a Fellow of King's in 1726 and a Fellow of Eton in 1729, and received a Lambeth MA in 1729. [5]

He was Rector of Farnham Royal from 1730 to 1752; and then of Worplesdon, Surrey from 1752 to 1765. He was also chaplain to the King from 1744. [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ National Archives
  2. ↑ Thomas Harwood, Alumni Etonenses: Or, A Catalogue of the Provosts & Fellows of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, London, T.Pearson, 1797
  3. ↑ “The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771)” Toynbee, P.J (Ed): Oxford, Clarendon, 1915
  4. ↑ W. M. Jacob, 'Weston, Stephen (1665–1742)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 July 2013
  5. 1 2 "Sleech, Stephen (SLC723S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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