John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes

The Earl of Rothes
John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes
Born	1698
Died	10 December 1767 Leslie, Scotland
Buried	Leslie, Scotland
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1715–1767
Rank	General
Commands	Ireland
Battles / wars	War of the Austrian Succession
Awards	Knight of the Thistle

General John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes KT (1698 – 10 December 1767) was a senior British Army officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Irish Army between 1758 and 1767.

Military career

Born the eldest son of John Hamilton-Leslie, 9th Earl of Rothes and Lady Jean Hay, daughter of John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale, Leslie was commissioned into the 9th Regiment of Dragoons in 1715.^[1] In 1717 he transferred to the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards.^[1]

He became Commanding Officer of the 21st Regiment of Foot in 1721 and inherited his father's title the following year.^[1] He became a Scottish representative peer in 1723.^[1] In 1732 he took over command of the 25th Regiment of Foot.^[1] He fought at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 and, having transferred to the Horse Grenadier Guards, at the Battle of Rocoux in 1744.^[1] In 1751 he transferred to the military staff in Ireland and in 1758 he became Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.^[1] His home, Leslie House in the village of Leslie, was seriously damaged by fire in 1763.^[2] He died at his home in 1767.^[1]

In 1747, under the Heritable Jurisdictions Act, he sold the office of Sheriff of Fife, which had been a hereditary right of the earldom since 1540.^[3]

Family

In 1741 he married Hannah Howard, daughter of Matthew Cole of Thorpe, Norfolk and his wife Brittania Cole; they went on to have two sons and two daughters, including John Leslie, 11th Earl of Rothes and Jane Elizabeth Leslie, 12th Countess of Rothes, who succeeded to her brother's title, defeating the rival claim of her uncle Andrew.^[1] Mary, the youngest daughter, married William Colyear, 3rd Earl of Portmore.^[4]

In 1763, following the death of his first wife, he married Mary Lloyd, daughter of Gresham Lloyd and Mary Holt, who after Lloyd's death remarried Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of Haddington, a close relative of Rothes.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ "Introduction to the Rothes Papers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rothes, Earls of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 758.
^ "William Charles [Colyear], 3rd Earl of Portmore". Cracrofts Peerage. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.

Military offices
Preceded by John Middleton	Colonel of the Earl of Rothes' Regiment of Foot 1732–1745	Succeeded by The Lord Sempill
Preceded by The Lord Tyrawley	Captain and Colonel of the 2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards 1745	Succeeded by The Earl of Harrington
Preceded by The Earl of Stair	Colonel of The Earl of Rothes' Regiment of Dragoons 1745–1750	Succeeded by Hon. James Cholmondeley
Preceded by The Earl of Crawford	Colonel of the Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons 1750–1752	Succeeded by John Campbell
Preceded by Gervais Parker	Governor of Duncannon 1751–1767	Succeeded by Lord Robert Bertie
Preceded by The Earl of Dunmore	Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards 1752–1767	Succeeded by The Duke of Gloucester
Preceded by Viscount Molesworth	Commander-in-Chief, Ireland 1758–1767	Unknown
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by John Hamilton-Leslie	Earl of Rothes 1722–1767	Succeeded by John Leslie

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