James Leslie was an eighteenth-century

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. Leslie was born in 1706 at Tarbert, County Kerry, son of James Leslie and Sarah Kelly, and educated at

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. He was

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then Perpetual curate at St Nicholas Within,

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and finally

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. In 1755 he became Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, serving until his death on 24 November 1770."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p362 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 He lived at Tarbert House, which his family built about 1690, and which still stands. He married Joyce Lyster, daughter of Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield,

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and Elizabeth Warren, by whom he was the father of a numerous family, including Sir Edward Leslie (1744–1818), 1st and last of the Leslie Baronets of Tarbert, Richard Leslie, Archdeacon of Aghadoe (died 1804), Martha (died 1831), who married James Lowry of Rockdale,

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, and Catherine, who married James Scott of Willsborough,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leslie, James 18th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 1695 deaths Christian clergy from County Kerry Alumni of Trinity College Dublin