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Stephen Sleech
Stephen Sleech was an 18th-century Honorary Chaplain to the King who was Provost of Eton College from 1746 until his death.
The son of Richard Sleech, a canon of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, 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.
Edward Cooke (1755–1820)
Edward Cooke (27 June 1755 – 19 March 1820) was a British politician and pamphleteer.
Family and early life.
He was born at Denham, Buckinghamshire, the third but only surviving son of William Cooke (1711–1797), provost of King's College, Cambridge and his wife, Catherine, the daughter of Richard Sleech, a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1777 and