Background
Born in Sun Street, Bishopsgate, London, on 4 June 1783, and baptised at Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, in September of that year, he was son of Peter Le Keux by Anne Dyer, his wife. The engraver Henry Le Keux (1787–1868), was his younger brother. His father, a wholesale pewter manufacturer in Bishopsgate, was from a Huguenot family.
