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John Leek (priest)

English priest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ17479332 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Leek (died 1369) was a Canon of Windsor from 1362 to 1369.

Career

He was appointed:

Dean in the King's Chapel

Rector of Yardley Hastings (diocese of Lincoln) 1358

Rector of All Saints Church, Loughborough 1349 – 1353 and 1358 - 1369

Rector of Little Gelham (or Yeldham) (diocese of London)

Prebendary of Somerley in Chichester until 1366

He was appointed to the third stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1362 and held the canonry until 1369.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “John Leek (priest)” is english priest. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through John, Leek and priest, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1369, 1362, 1358, 1349—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, John, Leek and priest is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17479332. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1369, 1362, 1358 and 1349.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Leek (priest)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.