Archibald Alexander Leslie Melville KT (1890 - 1947)

Born 6 Aug 1890 in Perthshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Rosamond Sylvia Diana Mary (Foljambe) Leslie-Melville — married 1918 in Westminster, Middlesex, England

Descendants

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Caution; Please take care This person is noticed as Archibald Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven on wikipedia and in many sources. However thepeerage.com website, and others, holds him as Archibald Alexander Leslie Melville, 15th Earl of Leven. Please take care with merging into this line. Note, that at this date, there is no hyphenation in his "last name" it was Leslie Melville

Biography

Archibald Leslie Melville KT is a member of Clan Leslie.

Archibald Leslie Melville KT is Notable.

Sir Archibald Leslie Melville was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Archibald Alexander Leslie Melville, was born on 6 August 1890 the son of Ronald Ruthven Leslie Melville, Earl of Leven and Hon. Emma Selina Portman.^[1]

He inherited the titles at the death of his brother David, in 1913, succeeding to the titles on 11 June 1913.

He fought in the First World War, where he was wounded. He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.

He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel in the service of the Lovat Scouts (his father's Regiment). He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Thistle (K.T.)

He died on 15 January 1947 at age 56.

Family

He married Lady Rosamond Sylvia Diana Mary Foljambe, daughter of Cecil George Saville Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool and Susan Louisa Cavendish, on 3 September 1918. They had children:

• Lady Jean Elizabeth Leslie Melville; b. 25 Jun 1921, d. 8 Mar 2010.
• Alexander Robert Leslie Melville, his eldest son and heir; b. 13 May 1924, d. 7 Apr 2012.
• Hon. George David Leslie Melville; b. 13 May 1924, d. 23 Jun 1997.
• Hon. Ronald Joscelyn Leslie Melville; b. 22 Nov 1926, d. 1987.
• Hon. Alan Duncan Leslie Melville; b. 11 Oct 1928.

Sources

Footnotes:

1. ↑ All information form this bio is derived from thepeerage.com for Archibald Alexander Leslie Melville, 15th Earl of Leven which cites Burke's Peerage.

• "England, Middlesex, Westminster, Parish Registers, 1538-1912," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC8G-MJR : 24 December 2014), Archibald Alexander Leven Melville and Rosamond Sylvia Diana Mary Foliambe, 1918, Marriage; from "Parish registers 1539-1945," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing St George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, England, City of Westminster Archives Centre, London; FHL microfilm .
• "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7RR-BNQ : 3 August 2017), The Honourable Archibald Alexander Leslie Melville, York, York, Yorkshire (East Riding), England; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

Publications:

• thepeerage.com - Archibald Alexander Leslie Melville, 15th Earl of Leven which cites Burke's Peerage.