Sir John Leslie, 1st Baronet

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Sir John Leslie, 1st Baronet was born on 16 December 1822 and died on 23 January 1916. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Co. Monaghan.

In 1830, he was sent to school at Dedham, Essex. During midsummer term, 1834, he joined his elder brother, Charles, at Harrow. In 1839, John entered Christ Church, Oxford. He obtained a commission in the 1st Lifeguards, and was quartered at the Regent's, Hyde Park, Windsor and Farnborough barracks.

In 1854, he met at Hazelwood a distinguished Waterloo veteran, the Rt. Hon. Colonel George Lionel Dawson Damer (younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Portarlington), and his daughter, Miss Constance Damer; the marriage taking place two years later at St George's Hanover Square, London. Mrs Damer ("Minnie Seymour") was the adopted daughter of George IV's wife, Mrs Fitzherbert.