Alexander Melville, 5th Earl of Leven
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Alexander Melville 5th Earl of Leven (28 May 1695 – 2 September 1754) was the son of David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven
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A Lord of Session 1734-54; Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1741-42 ; High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1741-53; a Representative Peer for Scotland 1747-54; a Lord of Police 1754
Mary died in 1723, and on 13 March 1726, he married Elizabeth Monypenny. They had four children:
David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven
David Leslie-Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven and 2nd Earl of Melville was a Scots aristocrat, politician, and soldier.The third son of George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville and his second wife Catherine Leslie-Melville, he shared the Whig political and the Presbyterian religious sympathies of his...
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A Lord of Session 1734-54; Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1741-42 ; High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1741-53; a Representative Peer for Scotland 1747-54; a Lord of Police 1754
Family
On 23 February 1721, he married Mary Erskine and they had one child:- David Melville, 6th Earl of LevenDavid Melville, 6th Earl of LevenDavid Melville, 6th Earl of Leven was the son of Alexander Melville, 5th Earl of Leven.Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1759-61; Deputy Governor of the Bank of Scotland; a Lord of Police 1772-82; High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1783-1801On 29 July 1747, he...
(1722–1802)
Mary died in 1723, and on 13 March 1726, he married Elizabeth Monypenny. They had four children:
- Lady Mary Melville (also Lady Mary Leslie, b. 8 May 1736)
- General Lord Alexander Melville (1731–?)
- Lady Anne Melville (d. 1779)
- Lady Elizabeth Melville (b. 1737, d. 1788), who married John Hope, 2nd Earl of HopetounJohn Hope, 2nd Earl of HopetounJohn Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun was the son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone....