Colonel Charles Leslie, Twenty-sixth Baron of Balquhain

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"Colonel Charles Leslie,

"Twenty-sixth Baron of Balquhain.

"Colonel Charles Leslie, K.H., fifth son of John Leslie, twenty-second Baron of Balquhain, by his wife Violet Dalzell, succeeded his brother James Michael Leslie as twenty-sixth Baron of Balquhain, 2d January 1849.

"Charles Leslie was sent to the grammar-school in Aberdeen for his education, and there he was a fellow-student with Lord Byron. He entered the army, and served with the 29th Regiment in the Peninsula, under the Duke of Wellington; and was present at the battles of Roleca, Vimiera, Oporto, Talavera, Albuera, the siege of Badajos, the Lines of Torres Vedras, Redenha, besides various other affairs and skirmishes, for which he received the Peninsular war-medal and four clasps. He was severely wounded at the battle of Talavera, and he has still the muscket ball in his right leg.

"Colonel Charles Leslie is a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, a Colonel in the army, late of the Grenedier Guards, and a deputy-Lieutenant and magistrate in Derbyshire and Aberdeenshire.

"Colonel Leslie married, first, 24th November 1826, Mary Halloway, daughter of Major-General Sir Charles Halloway. By her, who died 3d October 1832, he had issue --

" I. John Charles, born 3d September 1827, at London, and died on the same day.

" II. Charles Stephen, born at Omagh in Ireland 28th April 1832. He married, in 1853, Jane, daughter of John Rounding, Esq., by whom he has issue --

" I. Violet Winnifred, born 25th August 1856.

" II. Charles Radcliff, born 3d November 1857; died 9th March 1858.

" III. Charles Radcliff Aloysius, born 13th May 1859.

" IV. Anthony Ignatius, born 7th February 1861; died 31st December 1861.

" V. Dorothy, born 10th July 1862.

" VI. Mary Georgina, born 3d December 1864; died 26th January 1865.

" VII. Mary Joseph Frances, born at Slindon Hall, Sussex, 15th April 1866.

" VIII. Mary Teresa, born at Hassop Hall, Derbyshire, 7th October 1867.

" IX. John Cuthbert Eyre Leslie, born at Slindon Hall, Sussex, 24th April 1869.

"Colonel Leslie, married, secondly, 21st July 1836, the Right Honourable Lady Dorothy Eyre, eldest daughter of Francis, sixth Earl of Newburgh, and granddaughter of Charles Radcliff, Earl of Derwentwater. She succeeded as Countess of Newburgh, on the death of her brother Francis, eighth earl, in October 1852. She died 22d November 1853, leaving Hassop, Slindon, and all her other estates in the counties of Derby, Sussex, Gloucester, and Northumberland, to her husband Colonel Leslie, whom she appointed her sole executor."

Other References

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol II. page 955