Stephen Sleech

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

The son of Richard Sleech, a canon of St George’s Chapel, Windsor,^[4] he was educated at Eton and King’s; and was awarded a Lambeth degree in 1729. He was Rector of Farnham Royal from 1730 to 1752; and then of Worplesdon, Surrey from 1752 until his death on 8 October 1765.^[5]

Notes

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

Preceded by Henry Bland	Provost of Eton College 1746–1765	Succeeded by Edward Barnard

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