Archibald Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven
Male, Deceased Person
1890 – 1947
Who was Archibald Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven?
Archibald Alexander Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven, 12th Earl of Melville KT DL was a Scottish soldier, and peer.
He was educated at Oxford and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He played for the Oxford University Polo on a Handicap of +3. He served in World War I, where he was wounded. He was Captain in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was Lieutenant-Colonel, and Brevet Colonel in the Lovat Scouts. He was a Representative peer for Scotland, between 1927 and 1947. He was made Knight of the Thistle in 1934; and was Lord Lieutenant of Nairnshire from 1935 to 1947. He donated his collection of drawings and water-colours to the Bodleian Library in 1920.
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