Sir Edward Leslie, 1st Baronet explained

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.^[1] On 3 September 1787 he was a 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.^[2]

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.

Notes and References

1. E. M. Johnston-Liik, MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.102. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
2. 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.