LESLIE, John (1679-1722) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

bap. 21 Aug. 1679, 1st s. of Charles Hamilton, 5th earl of Haddington [S], and Margaret, suo jure countess of Rothes [S]; bro. of Thomas Hamilton<sup>&dagger;</sup>, 6th earl of Haddington [S]. m. 29 Apr. 1697, Jean (d.1731), da. John Hay, 2nd mq. of Tweeddale [S], 8s. (1 d.v.p.) 4da. (2 d.v.p.). d. 9 May 1722; admon. 26 Mar. 1735 to Alexander Garden esq., principal creditor. TNA, PROB 6/111, f. 56v.

Offices Held

Ld. privy seal [S] 1704 – 05; PC [S] 1704 – 05; v.-adm. [S] 1715–?d.; ld. high. commr. to Gen. Assembly, Church of Scotland 1715-21; chamberlain, Fife and Strathearn 1716 – d.; commr. planting schools in Highlands 1716.

Hered. sheriff principal, Aberdeen and Fife 1700 – d.; ld. lt. Aberdeenshire, Fife, and Kinross 1715, Aberdeen by 1716. NAS, GD 90/2/194; GD 52/41; CTP 1720–8, pp. 117, 262; TNA, SP 54/10/168.

capt. and gov. Stirling Castle Feb 1718–d. Lockhart Letters, 6; NAS, GD 406/1/5279; GD 220/5/507; GD 1/73/10; GD 124/15/1196.

Burgess, Edinburgh 1696; provost, Cupar-d. Scot. Rec. Soc. li. 307; TNA, SP 54/13/96, 115, SP 54/14/102.

Parlimentarian

LESLIE, John (1679-1722)

Associated with: Leslie House, Fife and Tyninghame House, Haddington.

HAMILTON

Likenesses

oil on canvas by J.B. De Medina, 1694, Clan Leslie Charitable Trust; oil on canvas by J. Scougall, Clan Leslie Charitable Trust; oil on canvas by unknown artist, National Galleries of Scotland.

Author

Townend, Graham

Hayton, David

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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