Alexander Leslie-Melville, 7th Earl of Leven explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Earl of Leven and Melville
Birth Name:Alexander Leslie-Melville
Birth Date:1749 11, df=y
Office:Scottish representative peer
Term Start:4 December 1806
Term End:29 April 1807
Predecessor:The Earl of Leven
Successor:The Earl of Leven
Children:8; including David and John
Parents:David Melville, 6th Earl of Leven
Wilhelmina Nisbet
Party:Whig

Alexander Leslie-Melville, 7th Earl of Leven, 6th Earl of Melville (7 November 1749  - 22 February 1820) was a Scottish Whig politician and peer.

As the eldest son of David Melville, 6th Earl of Leven, he succeeded his father as Earl of Leven and Earl of Melville on 9 June 1802. Between 1806 and 1807 he sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer.

Family

On 12 August 1784 he married Jane Thornton (11 February 1757  - 13 February 1818), daughter of John Thornton, and they had five sons and three daughters:

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