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From the Book of Eminent Burgesses of Dundee 1513 to 1885.


Colonel Ludovic Leslie,- 22nd September 1670

AT DUNDEE, QUHILK DAY COLLONELL LESLIE




AT DUNDEE, QUHILK DAY JOHN LESLIE, LORD LENDORS, COLLONELL LESLIE, AND SIR JAMES McGILL OF RANKEILLOR, WERE ALL ADMITTED BURGESSES OF THE SAID BURGH, GRATIS. JOHN LESLIE, third LORD LINDORES, was the nephew of PATRICK, LORD LINDORES, who was enrolled as a Burgess on 10th April, 1622 (vide page 124). He was the son of JAMES LESLIE, second LORD LINDORES, and of MARY, daughter of PATRICK, seventh LORD GRAY. He succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1667, and survived till 1706. By his marriage with LADY MARION OGILVY, daughter of the second EARL OF AIRLIE (vide page 182) and relict of LORD COUPAR (vide page 128), he had one son, DAVID, who succeeded as fourth LORD LINDORES.

Transcribed by Iain D. McIntosh, Friends of Dundee City Archives

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