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:

  • Lady Jean Elizabeth Leslie Melville (25 June 1921 - 8 March 2010)
  • Alexander Robert Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven (13 May 1924 – 7 April 2012)
  • Hon. George David Leslie Melville (13 May 1924 – 23 June 1997)
  • Hon. Ronald Joscelyn Leslie Melville (22 November 1926 - 1987)
  • Hon. Alan Duncan Leslie Melville (born 11 October 1928) [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Polo Monthly" (PDF). 1912: 436. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "19th-century Drawings and Water-colours". www.bodley.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Ian Brodie		 Lord Lieutenant of Nairn
1935–1947		 Succeeded by
John Grahame Buchanan Allardyce
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
John David Melville		 Earl of Leven
Earl of Melville
1913–1947		 Succeeded by
Alexander Robert Leslie-Melville


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