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 200 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Leslie, family name of the Countess of Eothes. Leslie-Melville, family name of the Earl of Leven and Melville. For king and country. LEVEN AND MELVILLE, EARL OF. (LESLIE-MELVILLE.) JOHN THORNTON LESLIE-MELVILLE, llth Earl of Leven and 10th Earl of Melville, both in the peerage of Scotland, and a Representative Peer of Scotland, son of Alexander, 9th Earl of Leven, and 8th Earl of Melville. Born Dec. 18th, 1780; succeeded his brother, in I860; is a Dep. Lieut, of Surrey and Xairnshire : married, 1st (1812) Harriet, youngest daughter of Samuel Thornton, Esq. (this lady died, 1832), and has issue, living, Sun, Alexander, Viscount Kirkaltlie, 3. 1817: educated at Eton, and at Trinity College. Cambridge, (M.A. 1839.) } is a Dep. Lieut, of Nairnshire. Residence 7, Caveudish-sq. W. Cte*t Carltpn. Daughter, Emily Maria, b. 1815, m. 1858, (Williams). Adelaide Harriet, b. 1831. His lordship married 2ndly (1834), Sophia, 4th daughter of Henry Thornton, Esq. M.P. and has issue, living, Sims, Ronald Ruthven, b. 1835. Norman, b. 183Q, m. 186l. Daughters, Clara Sophia, b. 1843. Florence Lucy, b. 1848. Brother living, Alexander, b. 1800, m. 1825. Creations, Baron Melville, 1616, Baron Balgonie and Earl of Leven 1.641, Baron Raith, Monymail, and Balwearie, Viscount Kirkaldie and Earl of Melville, 1690, all in the peerage of Scotland. ?!rnts, Quarterly: 1st and 4th, grand quarters, quarterly, 1st and 4th, azure, a thistle slipped, proper, eiisignel with a i imperial crown, or, a coa< of augmentation, Lislie. inJ and 3rd, argent, on a bend, azure, three buckles, or, Lexlin ; ind and 3rd, grand quarters, quarterly, 1st and 4th, gules, three crescents within a boidure, argent, chaigtd with eight roses, of the first; -nd and 3rd, argent, a fcs^e, {rules, Ji'lriltc. (Crests, i tt, an arm embowed, in armour, the hand grasping a scimitar, all proper, Leslie; 2nd, the head of a wratch-hound erased, sable, Melmlle. S'lipporurrn, Two men in complete armour, each holding in his exterior hand a tilting spear erect, all proper, and attached to the upper pai* of the speaj", the banner of bcutlaud. Seats, Roehampton, Surrey ; Glenferness, Forres, N.B. Clubs, Carlton, W indham . LEVEN AND MELVILLE, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his brother, David, 10th Earl of Leven, and Cjth Earl of Melville. He was b. June 22, 1/85, and succeeded his lather, Feb. 22, 1820 ; was a Representative Peer of Scotland, and a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy : m. June 21, 18^4, Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Sir Archibald Campbell, 2nd Bart, ot Succoth : and d. Oct. 8, I860, having had issue three sons and four daughters. Her ladyship d. 1863. Levesou, Lord, son of Earl Granville. (see Graiiville.) Leveson-Gower, family name of Earl Granville. (Sutherland-Leveson-Gower,) family name of the Duke of Sutherland.