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Alexander Leslie, 5th Earl of Leven

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Alexander 5th

Alexander Melville (also Alexander Leslie), 5th Earl of Leven (28 May 1695 – 2 September 1754) was the son of David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven.

A Lord of Session 1734-54; Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1741-42 ; High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1741-53; a Representative Peer for Scotland 1747-54; a Lord of Police 1754

Family

On 23 February 1721, he married Mary Erskine and they had one child:

  • David Melville, 6th Earl of Leven (1722–1802)

    • Mary died in 1723, and on 13 March 1726, he married Elizabeth Monypenny. They had four children:

  • Lady Mary Melville (also Lady Mary Leslie who became a novelist, b. 8 May 1736)
  • General Alexander Leslie (1731–1794)
  • Lady Anne Melville (d. 1779)
  • Lady Elizabeth Melville (b. 1737, d. 1788), who married John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun

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