Archibald Alexander Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven, 12th Earl of Melville KT

Order of the Thistle

The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...

 (6 August 1890 - 15 January 1947) was a Scottish soldier, and peer.

He was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He served in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, where he was wounded. He was Captain in the Royal Scots Fusiliers

Royal Scots Fusiliers

-The Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot :The regiment was raised in Scotland in 1678 by Stuart loyalist Charles Erskine, de jure 5th Earl of Mar for service against the rebel covenanting forces during the Second Whig Revolt . They were used to keep the peace and put down brigands, mercenaries, and...

. He was Lieutenant-Colonel, and Brevet Colonel in the Lovat Scouts

Lovat Scouts

The Lovat Scouts were a British Army unit. The unit was first formed during the Second Boer War as a Scottish Highland yeomanry regiment of the British Army and is the first known military unit to wear a ghillie suit...

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He was a Representative peer for Scotland, between 1927 and 1947. He was made Knight of the Thistle in 1934; and was Lord Lieutenant of Nairnshire from 1935 to 1947. He donated his collection of drawings and water-colours to the Bodleian Library

Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...

 in 1920.

Family

He married Lady Rosamond Sylvia Diana Mary Foljambe (died 12 April 1974), on 3 September 1918; they had children:

• Lady Jean Elizabeth Leslie Melville (born 25 June 1921)
• Alexander Robert Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven (born 13 May 1924)
• Hon. George David Leslie Melville (13 May 1924 - 23 June 1997)
• Hon. Ronald Joscelyn Leslie Melville (22 November 1926 - 1987)
• Hon. Alan Duncan Leslie Melville (born 11 October 1928)