LEAKE, Stephen Martin, son of Captain Martin, went through different ranks in the herald's office till he came to be garter king at arms. He was the first person who wrote professedly on our English coins, two editions of his Historical Account of which were published with plates, under the title of Nummi Britannici Historia, the first, London, 1726, 8vo; the second, much improved, London, 1745, 8vo. He printed, in 1750, a Life of Sir John Leake, admiral of the fleet, to whom he was indebted for a considerable estate, which the admiral devised to trustees for the use of his son for life, and upon his death to Captain Martin, who had married Lady Leake's sister, and his heirs, by which means it came to the captain's son, who, in gratitude to the memory of Sir John Leake, wrote an account of his life, of which only fifty copies were printed. In 1766, he printed also fifty copies of the statutes of the order of the garter, 4to. He died in 1773, and was buried in the chancel of the parish church of Thorp in Essex.