George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes
George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes (born 2 Aug 1484 in Rothes)(died 24 November 1558) was a Scottish nobleman and diplomat.
George was the eldest son and heir of William Leslie, 3rd Earl of Rothes and Lord Leslie, who fell at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
George succeeded his father William, who in turn had succeeded his brother, George Leslie, the 2nd Earl.
On 1 April 1517 George and his first wife redeemed by purchase family lands which James IV of Scotland had sold to Andrew Barton.
He was Sheriff of Fife from 1529 to 1540 and a Lord of Session from 1541 and a Lord of the Articles from 1544.
George accompanied James V of Scotland on his wedding trip to France in 1536.
He was tried for the murder of Cardinal Beaton and acquitted in 1546.
He was ambassador to Denmark in 1550, and died at Dieppe, France in 1558.
George died while returning from the solemnization of the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, which he witnessed.
Several of the other Scottish commissioners died, Lord Fleming at Paris, and the Bishop of Orkney and Earl of Cassillis at Dieppe on the same night as George, 24 November 1558.
It was rumoured that they were murdered because of their stance of the issue of giving the Crown-Matrimonial of Scotland to the Dauphin.
Jane Elizabeth Leslie, 12th Countess of Rothes
Jane Elizabeth Leslie, 12th Countess of Rothes( 5 May 1750 – 1810) was a Scottish noblewoman.
She was the daughter of John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes and his first wife Hannah Howard, daughter of Matthew Howard of Thorp, Norfolk, and his wife Britannia Cole.
She succeeded her brother, John Leslie, 11th Earl of Rothes, in 1773 in the peerage and estates of Rothes, and effectually vindicated her right to the estates against the claim of her uncle Andrew Leslie, both in the Court of Session and the House of Lords.
She was twice married, first in 1766, to George Raymond Evelyn, youngest son of William Evelyn Glanville of St Clere, Kent, and secondly, in 1772, to Sir Lucas Pepys, 1st Baronet, an eminent physician and uncle of the first Earl of Cottenham.
By both marriages she had issue, and dying in 1810, was succeeded by the only surviving son of her first marriage, George William, 13th Earl of Rothes.
John Leslie, 11th Earl of Rothes
John Leslie( 19 October 1744 – 18 June 1773) was the 11th Earl of Rothes; he was Earl from 10 December 1767 until his death on 18 June 1773.
He was the son of the 10th Earl, who was also named John Leslie, and his first wife Hannah Howard who was the Countess of Rothes and died in 1761.
She was the daughter of Matthew Howard of Thorpe, Norfolk, and his wife Britannia Cole.
He married Jane Maitland, daughter of Captain Thomas Maitland, on 4 April 1768, but they had no children.
After his death the title passed to his sister Jane Elizabeth Leslie, 12th Countess of Rothes who was six years younger.
She defeated an attempt by her uncle Andrew Leslie to claim the title, following a lengthy lawsuit.
The 11th Earl's widow remarried Patrick Maitland, younger son of the 6th Earl of Lauderdale.
William Leslie, 3rd Earl of Rothes
William Leslie( died 1513), 3rd Earl of Rothes, was the son of Andrew Leslie, Master of Rothes, and Marjory( also known as Elizabeth) Sinclair, daughter of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness.
He succeeded his elder brother George as Earl in 1513.
As George had tried to sell the family lands without royal permission William was trying to recover his rights, especially over the Barony centred on Ballinbreich Castle.
However, he was killed at the battle of Flodden.
William married Margaret Balfour, his heir was George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes.
Their other children included John Leslie of Parkhill who was captured at the battle of Solway Moss, and James Leslie, Parson of Rothes.
George Leslie, 1st Earl of Rothes
George Leslie, 1st Earl of Rothes( c. 1406/1417 – 1490) was a Scottish nobleman and the first to hold the title of" Earl of Rothes", a hereditary title of the ruler of Leslie, Fife and the lands belonging to the Earl of Rothes.
George Leslie, 2nd Earl of Rothes
George Leslie, 2nd Earl of Rothes( died 1513) was a Scottish peer.
He was the son of Andrew Leslie, Master of Rothes and Marjorie Sinclair( daughter of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness), and the grandson of George Leslie, 1st Earl of Rothes.
George was invested in his lands as Earl of Rothes on 25 May 1492.
In 1498 George was summoned to trial for the murder of George Leslie alias Dunlop, and failed to appear in subsequent years.
In 1509, the Leslie lands were" recognized" by James IV of Scotland.
The King took back the family's feudal title because George had tried to sell the lands without permission.
Chief amongst the lands was the title of the Barony of Ballinbreich Castle.
George died unmarried before March 1513, and was succeeded as Earl by his brother, William.
James Lindsay, 7th Lord Lindsay
James Lindsay, 7th Lord Lindsay (1554-1601), Scottish landowner.
James Lindsay was the son of Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay and Euphemia Douglas, daughter of Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven and Margaret Erskine.
Lindsay was a gentleman of King James's bedchamber.
He married Eupheme Leslie in 1573, a daughter of Andrew Leslie, 5th Earl of Rothes and Grissel Hamilton.
He was an active Protestant, writing to Elizabeth I of England in favour of the Puritan preacher John Udall.
In 1592 the printer Robert Waldegrave dedicated an edition of Dudley Fenner's "Certain Godly and Learned Treatises" to him.
In January 1593 he led a group protesting at Holyrood Palace against the Catholic earls.
On 17 December 1596 he was involved in a riot at the Tolbooth Church in Edinburgh against the Octavians which was declared treason.
His property was forfeited.
Andrew Leslie, 5th Earl of Rothes
Andrew Leslie, 5th Earl of Rothes (before 1541–1611) was a Scottish nobleman.
He was the son of George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, and his third wife Agnes Somerville, daughter of Sir John Somerville of Cambusnethan and Elizabeth Carmichael.
He succeeded his father as 5th Earl in 1558, as his elder half-brothers Norman Leslie and William Leslie had forfeited their rights by having been implicated in the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546.
Leslie took an active part with the Lords of the Congregation, first against the queen-mother, Mary of Guise, when she was regent of Scotland, and afterwards against Mary, Queen of Scots in opposing her marriage with Lord Darnley, and in being part of the plot to murder David Rizzio.
He was, however, one of the peers who acquitted Bothwell of Darnley's murder, and went over to the side of the queen.
He fought for her at the Battle of Langside, and continued to occupy a position of some prominence in Scottish affairs until his death.
Andrew Leslie married Grizel Hamilton, daughter of Sir James Hamilton of Finnart and wife Margaret Livingston of Easter Wemyss, and had issue.
However, his eldest son James died before him.
On Andrew Leslie's death in 1611 he was succeeded by his grandson John, James' only surviving son.
Their son Patrick Leslie was the 1st Lord Lindores.
John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes
John Leslie( c. 163027 July 1681), son of John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes, was the 7th Earl of Rothes and 1st Duke of Rothes.
According to tradition, he was a descendant of Princess Beatrix, sister of King Malcolm III of Scotland.
His family had intermarried with both the Stuarts and the Bruces.
Malcolm Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes
Malcolm George Dyer- Edwardes Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes( 1902 – 1975) was a Scottish nobleman, and the head of Clan Leslie.
He was the Earl of Rothes from 1927- 1975 following the death of his father, Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes.
His mother was Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes, who not only survived the" Titanic" disaster, but took the till of a lifeboat and helped row survivors to the" RMS Carpathia".
His son succeeded him in 1975 as the Earl of Rothes.
On 17 July 1926, he married Beryl Dugdale, daughter of Lionel Dugdale of Crathorne, a former High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and sister of Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne.
They had three children:
He worked as Chairman of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society.
He succeeded as the 20th Earl of Rothes on the death of his father in 1927.
He served as a Representative Peer for Scotland until this system was abolished.
The Earl died on 7 May 1975.
The Rothes Chair in Preventive Ophthalmology was established at London University in his memory in 1977.

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