Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale
- Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale
Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale (9 March 1654 – 27 December 1707) was an English politician and courtier, styled Lord Deincourt from 1655 to 1681.
Deincourt was the eldest son of Nicholas Leke, 2nd Earl of Scarsdale and his wife, Frances, the third daughter of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick. On 11 February 1672, Deincourt married Mary Lewis (1658–1684), the second daughter and coheiress of Sir John Lewis, 1st Baronet.
Deincourt served as the Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners from 1677 to 1683, and as a captain in Lord Gerard's Regiment of Horse from 1678 to 1679. He was briefly Member of Parliament for Newark in 1679 and called to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Deincourt in 1680. A few months later, he inherited his father's earldom of Scarsdale.
Scarsdale was Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull from 1682, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire from 1684 to 1687, Colonel of The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Horse and Groom of the Stole to Prince George of Denmark from 1685 to 1687.
Scarsdale died childless in 1707 and his titles passed to his nephew, Nicholas.
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