The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-23
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has been high sheriff OF HIS native
county OF Monaghan. IS one OF the pill
lars Of the Turf CLUB In London. and
Cumberland Place. He has inherited
the good looks of his wonderful old
father and mother. and az his Ameri-
proved. handsome woman. his four
boys may DC said TO have come by their
coiiellness through descent. On tne
deatn vi MS father, now ninety years
OF age, Colonel Leslie Will inherit his
baronatcy, and likewise Castle Leslie.
sometimes known as Gluslough, which
has been in the family OF TINS branl u
OF the Scotch mouse OF Leslie ever since
IT settled In County Monaghan, in the
reign of Charles II.
Sir John Leslie is generally believed
10 have been the original of The Give
Newcome." OF rhacH=ray. whose init
. mate friendship ne enjoyed. He Was
originally captain of the First Life
Guards. but to The horror OF MS re-
| latives, abandoned the army In order
to devote himself to painting, and man
aged TO earn large income by means
OF MS brush. until tao death OF his cid
CT brother. in 1871, put him in posses
sion OF considerable fortuna, and OF
the GlaslouSh estates of the family. in
county Monaghan, lie Is the last sur
vivor OF the little band OF pre- -Raphael-
ties who more than hrty years ago
! used to assemble weekly ut a club in
Charles Street. berkeley Square, among
the distinguished members of the CO.
terie being Itusltin. Sir John Millais
George CavendIsh Bentinck, Augustus
Saville. Rossetti, Watts. Thackcray, etc.
To Irishmen 1t must be subject OF
friendly interest that Sir John Leslie
would to-day he peer OF the realm,
were IL. not FOR the fact that his IA
Their, as the most important landowner
or County Monaghan, voted against the
union more than hundred years ago,
declining the viscounty which was Of
Iered to him by the government If he
n I'm Re IN h
in existence. in Ireland. a book. to be
| found especially in the hands OF the
Roman Catholic clergy, containing
what Is called a black and a white list:
| in. other words. list of those who vot!
! ed for and against the union. Sir John
Leslie's father figures In the white list,
and that is why the nama of Leslie of
/ Glaslough, Is honored to this day
throughout the length and breadth OF
the Emerald Isle, always excepting
| Ulster.
Tho Leslie family is generally under
stood to have been founded by Hun
| garian nobleman, who escorted Queen
Margaret Of Scotland in 1867. She
| rode behind him an plllion, and while
| Grip fast!" cried he, and the Queen
| coolly replied. Gin the buckle bids
az the buckle holds): This is tho ira
aitional origin of Sir John Leslic's
! his family motto. which Is Grip fast"
! Sir John Leslie's branch of the fam
! lily. was founded by the Rt. Rev DR..
John Leslie, Bishop of the Isles, in
Scotland. who was translated to the
! See of Cloghcr, in Ireland. where he
! built for himself Castle Leslie or Glas-
| Tough, In county Monaghan. This
| bishop, VINO was known as the fight
ing bishop In the reign OF Charles L.
married. at the age OF seventy a girl
of eighteen, by whom he had fam
J lily of ten children, and when he went
ito London for the restoration of
Charles IL 1t is recorded of him that
he rode from Chester to London in
! twenty-four hours on horseback, in