James Michael Leslie, Twenty-fifth Baron of Balquhain

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"JAMES MICHAEL LESLIE,

"Twenty-fifth Baron of Balquhain

"James Michael Leslie, born at Fetternear 25th April 1784, fourth son of John Leslie, twenty-second Baron of Balquhain, by Violet Dalzell his wife, succeeded his nephew, John Edward, Count Leslie, twenty-fourth Baron of Balquhain, as twenty-fifth Baron, 19th August 1844."

“James Michael Leslie went to the grammar-school in Aberdeen for his education in 1796. On finishing his education he was sent to Liverpool, where he entered a West India Mercantile house; but, having no turn for mercantile pursuits, he went to Jamaica – then the most flourishing of the British colonies – where he acquired some property. On his accession to the estate of Balquhain, he returned to Scotland to take possession in 1845. He roofed the remains of the old chapel at Fetternear, which was used as the family burial-vault, and adjoining to it he built a new chapel.

"James Michael Leslie was a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of Aberdeenshire. He never married. He died at Fetternear 2d January 1849, and was succeeded by his brother Colonel Charles Leslie, K.H. , twenty-sixth Baron of Balquhain."