Sir Edward Leslie, 1st Baronet (1744 – 21 November 1818) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Leslie was the son of Bishop James Leslie and Joyce Lyster. He was the

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for

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in the

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between 1787 and 1790. On 3 September 1787 he was a

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, of

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in the Baronetage of Ireland. On 27 July 1798 he raised the Loyal Tarbert Regiment of

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, of which he became colonel. The regiment was disbanded at Plymouth on 19 June 1802.Scobie, Ian Hamilton Mackay
An old highland fencible corps: the history of the Reay Fencible Highland Regiment of Foot, or Mackay's Highlanders, 1794-1802
(Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1904), p.361. In 1773 he married Anne Cane. Leslie had no male issue and on his death his title became extinct. His daughter, Louisa, married

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leslie, Edward, 1st Baronet 1744 births 1818 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Irish MPs 1783–1790 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Carlow constituencies