Melville, Alexander [Leslie]

Education

Student United College 1817-1818 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Log.; Math. Jun. 1818-1819 Ethics; Physics. (Secondar).

Birth/childhood

Born 18.6.1800 son of Alexander Melville, 7th Earl of Leven and 6th Earl of Melville and Jane Thornton.

Career

Admitted advocate 1824. [Lawyer]

Of Branston Hall, Lincolnshire.

Death

Died 19.11.1881.

Sources

  • Scots Peerage
  • SRO GD26
  • F.J. Grant, The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943 (Edinburgh, 1944) (SRS145).