Sir John Leslie, 1st Baronet

Sir John Leslie, 1st Baronet, JP, DL (16 December 1822 – 23 January 1916) was a British Conservative politician, landowner and painter.[1] He was the second son of Charles Powell Leslie and his second wife, the former Christiana Fosbery (died 1869).However, after embarking on a Grand Tour in 1847 he resigned his Army commission and pursued artistic interests.[1] In 1854, he met at Hazelwood a distinguished Waterloo veteran, Colonel George Dawson-Damer (younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Portarlington), and his daughter, Lady Constance, whom Leslie married two years later at St George's, Hanover Square, London.[4] Sir John Leslie married Lady Constance Dawson-Damer, sister of the 4th Earl of Portarlington, and had one son and four daughters:
Sir John Leslie, Bt and his wife at Glaslough , County Monaghan
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