Sir Edward Leslie, 1st Baronet (1744 – 21 November 1818) was an

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politician. Leslie was the son of Bishop James Leslie and Joyce Lyster. He was the Member of Parliament 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

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. 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

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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 Lord Douglas Gordon-Hallyburton.

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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 People from Tarbert, County Kerry Politicians from County Kerry