Archibald Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven

Archibald Alexander Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven, 12th Earl of Melville KT DL (6 August 1890 – 15 January 1947) was a Scottish soldier, and peer.

He was educated at Oxford and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He played for the Oxford University Polo on a Handicap of +3.[1] He served in World War I, where he was wounded. He was Captain in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was Lieutenant-Colonel, and Brevet Colonel in the Lovat Scouts. He was a Representative peer for Scotland, between 1927 and 1947.[2] He was made Knight of the Thistle in 1934; and was Lord Lieutenant of Nairnshire from 1935 to 1947. He donated his collection of drawings and water-colours to the Bodleian Library in 1920.[3]

Family

He married Lady Rosamond Sylvia Diana Mary Foljambe (died 12 April 1974), on 3 September 1918; they had children:

References

Honorary titles
Preceded by
Ian Brodie
Lord Lieutenant of Nairn
19351947
Succeeded by
John Grahame Buchanan Allardyce
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
John David Melville
Earl of Leven
Earl of Melville

19131947
Succeeded by
Alexander Robert Leslie-Melville


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/12/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.