Escutcheon of the Leslie baronets of Tarbert[ 1] Sir Edward Leslie, 1st Baronet (1744 – 21 November 1818) was an Anglo-Irish politician.
Leslie was the son of Bishop James Leslie and Joyce Lyster.
He was the Member of Parliament for Old Leighlin in the Irish House of Commons between 1787 and 1790.[ 2] baronet , of Tarbert in the Baronetage of Ireland . On 27 July 1798 he raised the Loyal Tarbert Regiment of fencibles , of which he became colonel. The regiment was disbanded at Plymouth on 19 June 1802.[ 3]
In 1773 he married Anne Cane. Leslie had no male issue and on his death his title became extinct. His daughter, Louisa, married Lord Douglas Gordon-Hallyburton .
References
^ Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1844). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland ^ E. M. Johnston-Liik, MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800
^ Scobie, Ian Hamilton Mackay, An old highland fencible corps: the history of the Reay Fencible Highland Regiment of Foot, or Mackay's Highlanders, 1794-1802 (Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1904), p.361.
