in whose household he held the high office of chamberlain. Many families of Leslie are now resident in France, Hungary, Russia, &c. and several places in those countries bear names derived from this ancient cognoThe surmen, as Leslinia, Lessilia, &c. name has been differently spelt, Lessley, Lesley, Lesly, but most generally Leslie. BARTHOLOMEW, the founder of the family in Great Britain, stood high in the favour of MALCOLM III. of Scotland, by whom honours and possessions were conferred upon him with no sparing hand, in reward for his great services. On one occasion, after a gallant defence of the citadel of Edinburgh, the King promised him that wherever he should journey from Dumfermline towards the north, in one day, upon the same horse, he would grant him the surrounding country to the extent of a mile. When, on his return from the performance of his task, the King inquired where he had left his horse, he answered "between the less Ley and the mair," the King, remarking that the place agreed with his name, replied, "Lord Lessley shalt thou be, and thy heirs after thee," and confirmed the promised grant. Bartholomew died at an advanced age, in 1120, leaving a son Malcolm, who maintained the high character of his father, and whose descendants bore conspicuous parts in many of the occurrences of the eventful times in which they lived. The earldom of Rothes was conferred, in 1457, on George Leslie, and has descended in a direct line to the present peer. A scion of the ennobled house, HENRY LESLIE, born in 1580, removing from Scotland, settled in Ireland in 1614, and died in 1661, leaving a son, JAMES LESLIE, born 21st November, 1624, who married Jane Echlin, of Downshire, and was succeeded by his eldest son, The Venerable HENRY LESLIE, archdeacon of Down, born 4th November, 1651, who m. Margaret Beachan, of an English family, and had issue, 1. James. 11. PETER. 1. Randal. IV. Edmund. v. Henry-Robert. 1. Mary. 11, Catherine. II. Penelope, m. E. F. Stafford, esq. and had a daughter, Robert Verstigan, in his Antiquities, on the word ley, writes: "a combat having formerly taken place in Scotland, between a noble of the family of Leslie and a foreign knight, in which the Scot was victorious, the following lines, in memory of the deed and the place where it happened, are still extant. "Between the Lesse Ley and the Mair He slew the knight and left him there " Anne, b. on Christmas-day, 1715, m. to Arthur Trevor, first Viscount Dungannon, and had issue, Arthur Trevor, father of the present Viscount Dungan non. Anne Trevor, m. in 1759, Garret, first Earl of Mornington, and was mother of the Marquis Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, Lords Maryborough and Cowley, &c. Prudence Trevor, m. to Charles Powell Leslie, esq. of Glasslough, in the county of Monaghan. Mr. Leslie was succeeded at his decease by his son, The Rev. PETER LESLIE, b. in 1686, rector of Ahoghill, in the county of Antrim, who m. Jane, daughter of the Right Rev. Dr. Dopping, bishop of Meath, and had issue, 1. HENRY, his heir. 11. James, of Leslie House, in the county of Antrim, b. in 1728, m. first, Mrs. Hamilton, and secondly, Sarah Fleming, but d. s. p. in 1796. III. Samuel, major in the 14th regiment, IV. EDMOND, archdeacon of Down. See 1. Margaret, m. to the Very Rev. Hill 11. Jane, m. to the Rev. Mr. Stewart. Mr. Leslie was s. by his eldest son, The Rev. HENRY LESLIE, L.L.D. of Ballybay, in the county of Monaghan, born in October, 1719, rector of Tandragee, in Armagh, who m. in 1753, Catherine, daughter of the Very Rev. Charles Meredyth, dean of Meath, and had issue, 1. Peter-Henry, b. in 1755, killed in II. CHARLES-ALBERT, his heir. the Right Rev. William Foster, bishop of Clogber, and had issue, John Leslie Foster, one of the barons of the Court of Exchequer, in Ireland. William, in holy orders. Anna, Mrs. Howell. Catherine, m. to William Drummond Delap, esq. Harriet, m. to the Count de Salis, Elizabeth, Mrs. M'Creight. Dr. Leslie died in February, 1803, and was succeeded by his son, CHARLES - ALBERT LESLIE, esq. of Ballybay. Arms Quarterly, 1st and 4th arg. on a bend az. three buckles or, for LESLIE; 2nd and 3rd or, a lion ramp. gu. debruised by a ribband sa. for ABERNETHY. Crest-An angel, although a gryphon is now used by some portions of the family, and different crests have been adopted at different times, as a demi-gryphon, a demiangel or, holding in his dexter hand a gryphon's head erased ppr. yet the angel, as appears from an ancient inscription on a stone in Fifeshire, was the original crest of the Rothes family. MARGARET, by whom it was given to Bartholomew, under the following circumstances: -In crossing a river swollen by floods, the Queen was thrown from her horse, and in danger of being drowned, when the knight, plunging into the stream, seized hold of her Majesty's girdle, and as he brought her with difficulty towards the bank, she frequently exclaimed grip fast, and afterwards desired that he should retain the words as his motto, in remembrance of the occurrence. Estates-In the counties of Monaghan and Down. Seat-Ballybay, in the county of Mona Motto-Grip fast. The motto has remained unchanged since the time of Queen | ghan. LESLIE, OF LESLIE HOUSE. LESLIE, JAMES, esq. of Leslie House, in the county of Antrim, b. 17th July, 1768, m. 28th February, 1795, Mary, daughter of Adam Cuppage, esq. of the county of Armagh, and has issue, 1. JAMES-EDMUND, m. Sarah, youngest daughter of the Right Reverend Daniel Daniel-Sandford, d. an infant. Seymour-Montague, b. 14th November, 1835. Mary-Wilhelmina. Sarah-Agnes. Jane-Elizabeth. 11. Henry. III. Francis-Seymour. IV. J. Charles-W. Mr. Leslie succeeded to the estates on the demise of his uncle, James Leslie, esq. in 1796. He is a deputy-lieutenant, and was high sheriff in 1797, for the county of Antrim. Lineage. THE VENERABLE EDMOND LESLIE, archdeacon of Down, youngest son of the Rev. Peter Leslie, rector of Ahoghill, and brother of the Rev. Henry Leslie, LL. D. of Ballybay, was born in November, 1735, and m. first, Jane, daughter of John Macnaughten, esq. of Benvarden, in the county of Antrim (see vol. ii. p. 309), and had by her Peter, d. in London. Bartholomew, d. in India. JAMES, now of LESLIE HOUse. Edmund, d. in India. Archdeacon Leslie m. secondly, Eleanor, George, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund-Francis. Ellen. Henry, dean of Connor. Samuel, captain R. N. m. Martha, dau. Archdeacon Leslie's eldest surviving son Arms See LESLIE OF BALLYBAY. L'LOYD, OF CROGHAN AND BAWDESWELL.* L'LOYD, GUY, esq. of Croghan House, in the county of Roscommon, b. 19th August, 1766, m. 17th December, 1799, Martha, daughter of William Bircham, esq. of The Ollands, in the county of Norfolk, and has issue, 1. GUY, b. 30th December, 1807, m. in 1828, SusannaMartha, daughter of J. Stevenson Cann, esq. of Cavick House, in the county of Norfolk, and has issue, GUY, b. 13th April, 1833. Susanna-Ellen. Bertha-Elizabeth. Mr. L'loyd, jun. is in the commission of the peace and a deputy-lieutenant for the county of Roscommon, for which shire he served the office of high sheriff in the year 1833. 1. Sarah-Bircham, m. 14th December, 1835, the Rev. II. Elizabeth, m. 10th December, 1825, the Rev. Phillip Phillip L'loyd, b. 5th January, 1827. III. Martha. Mr. L'loyd, who has been for upwards of fifty years a magistrate for the county of Norfolk, succeeded his father, the late Colonel Richard L'loyd, of Bawdeswell Hall, in that county, on his death in the year 1811, and has been exempted from serving as high sheriff for the county of Roscommon. Lineage. The family of L'loyd of Croghan and Bawdeswell claims ancient descent from the independent Princes of Wales. Connected with the house of Llewllyn, and, collaterally, with that of Tudor, like other ancient families of that wild and long unconquered principality, it seems lost in remote antiquity. The first ancestor of whom we have distinct record is HEDD OF THEDD MOLWYNOG, who resided at Yr Heullys, in the lordship and parish of Tallyhaern. He was seneschal and nearly akin to Prince David ap Owen, and was seized in chief of the lordship above named, with those of Llanfair, Duffryn, Elwg, and Nantraled, which his descendants long enjoyed, and part of which are by some of them still possessed. The chief of Llanfair and Duffryn left three sons, 1. Myntyr, whose line became extinct. II. GWYLLONON. From the second son, 66 GWYLLONON, descended, MEURIC LLWYD, of Llwn-y-maen, near Oswestry, a frontier town of North Wales, a valiant captain under the Earl of Arundel, who achieved," to quote the words of Pennant, "a very noble coat of arms, viz. the field argent, an eagle displayed with two heads sable." Of him, the chief of the name, and its first bearer in North Wales, sprang SIR GRYFFYTH LLWYD or LLOYD, the direct ancestor of the house of Croghan and Bawdeswell. His was the high honour of holding the golden ewer at the baptism of Edward, first Prince of Wales, and for his arms he bore the present device of the family, with the eagle of his noble ancestor there BAWDESWELL HALL, the seat of the late Colonel L'loyd, with the demesne lands thereunto annexed, is now in possession of the Misses L'loyd, sisters of the present representative of the family. upon displayed, canton-wise, by way of augmentation.* Of the same blood came Rhys ap-Jenan-ap-Llewellyn ap Lloyd, esquire to the body of EDWARD IV. (as the book of Evan Lloyd Jeffry hath it) who with his cousin Davyd ap Jenkyn, both potent chieftains, acted a turbulent part in the Lancastrian wars. Omitting the long unbroken descent of the Denbigshire Lloyds, of Havodunnos, during those unsettled times, we pass to their descendant, 66 SIR ROBERT L'LOYD, of Wrexham, in Denbigshire, a right valorous and thrysty captain," who wedded, towards the close of the sixteenth century, Ann Moustine or Mostyn, a daughter of that ancient house, now ennobled in the person of the present Lord Mostyn. Sir Robert had issue, cum aliis, THOMAS L'LOYD, esq. who wedded Honor, daughter of Robert Price, esq. but the lady having married against the consent of her friends, Mr. Lloyd was induced to remove into the province of Ulster, in Ireland, under the auspices of his kinsman, the celebrated Sir Ralph Bingley, to whom the Crown, in 1603, granted the manors of Strangford and Ardglass, with other lands in Downshire. On Sir Ralph's death, Mr. Lloyd removed to the seat of his cousin, Sir Maurrice Gryffyth, at Carrick Drumrushe, in the county of Leitrim, and there acquiring an estate of twelve hundred acres, he settled, not choosing to return into Wales, as Mrs. L'loyd's friends continued irreconcilable. By her he left five sons and three daughters, viz. 7 both officers of distinction, 1. Richard, who perished in the field 11. John, during the civil wars of 1641, in Ire- III. OWEN, successor to his father, of of the baronets of that name in Ireland, and had issue; and thirdly, Lieutenant Robert Drury, of the county of Suffolk, and had issue. 11. Jane, died unmarried s. p. III. Elizabeth, married Captain Erasmus Mathew, of Northamptonshire, and had, with three daughters, an only son, John Mathew, esq. who married a daughter of Sir Francis Gore, bart. ancestor of the Gores, Earls of Arran and Rosse, &c. Mr. Lloyd was succeeded at his death by his third, though eldest surviving son, OWEN LLOYD, esq. a captain in the army. He was the first possessor of the Roscommon estates, in which shire he acquired three thousand acres, and wedded Elizabeth Fitzgerald, granddaughter of Sir Luke Fitzgerald, of Tyroghan, in the county Kildare, a grandson of the illustrious Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare, direct ancestor of the ducal house of Leinster, and of the other noble branches of that family. By Miss Fitzgerald Mr. Lloyd left at his decease in the year 1664 three sons and three daughters, viz. 1. THOMAS, his heir, of whom hereafter. 1. Alice, m. Colonel Daniel Hodson, son 11. Honor, did unmarried. III. Elizabeth, m. the Rev. George THOMAS L'LOYD, a colonel in the army, who was educated and learned the art of war in the military academy of France, and beRey-came one of the most accomplished gentlemen of his. day. In the beginning of the civil wars, terminating in the expulsion of JAMES II. he was chosen commander in the field by the Inniskillen forces (in the same manner that Hamilton was governor of the town,) and died in the year 1689, at the early age of 32. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Cole, bart. ancestor of the Viscounts Cole, Earls of Enniskillen, but left no issue. Colonel Thomas Lloyd was succeeded by his brother, IV. William, m. Catharine, daughter of *Morfydd, one of the daughters of Sir Gryffyth Llwyd, married Madoc Gloddaeth, and brought to him the estate of Tregarnedd, in the Isle of Anglesea, as her portion, in whose house it remained until the families Gloddaeth and Mostyn were united, and in the joint blood (now ennobled as above, in the person of Lord Mostyn) it continued until the late Sir Thomas Mostyn aliened it to the late Owen Williams, esq. of Anglesea. THE HONORABLE RICHARD L'LOYD, a most eminent practitioner at the bar of England, speaker of the Upper House of Assembly, in Jamaica, and lord chief justice of that island; where he m. Mary, daughter and sole heiress of Guy, esq. of the same island, with whom he received a fortune of three thousand pounds per annum, an immense sum in those days. By her, the chief justice had two sons and two daughters, 1. William, m. but died s. p. before his father. II. GUY, successor to his father. 1. Elizabeth, m. Henry Talbot, esq. a scion of the noble family of whom is Lord Talbot, of Malahide, &c. and had only one daughter, m. to Captain Thomas Cornwall, R. N. II. Catherine, m. Jeffery French, esq. of whom are the Frenches, of French Park, county of Roscommon. Chief Justice L'loyd was succeeded by his second, but eldest surviving son, GUY L'LOYD, esq. who married Mary, daughter of Copping, esq. of the county of Essex, and by her he had issue, John, died unm. s. p. RICHARD, successor to his father. Henry, in holy orders, married Diana, daughter of Thomas Bullock, esq. of Hingham, in Norfolk. Mary, m. to Thomas St. John, esq. Mr. L'loyd having lost his elder son, was at his decease succeeded by his second, RICHARD LLOYD, esq. of Bawdeswell Hall, in the county of Norfolk (in right of his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Jeeks, esq. of Bawdeswell Hall), colonel of the East Norfolk militia, and in the commission of the peace for the same county. By Miss Jeeks, Colonel L'loyd had issue six sons and eight daughters, viz. GUY, his successor. Richard, born 1772, (in remainder to the Irish estates), m. Sarah-Harriet, daughter of Peter Elwin, esq. of Thurning Hall, Norfolk, and lord of the manors of Thurning and Booton, &c. both in the same county, and has, with other issue, Richard-Hastings-Elwin L'loyd. Merrick, died in infancy. Edwin, Henry, married Sarah, eldest daughter of J. Stevenson Cann, esq. of Cavick House, sister of the present Mrs. L'loyd, jun. of Croghan House. Merrick, an officer in the royal navy, killed on board H. M. S. the Sirius, under the immortal Nelson, in the year 1805, before Malta, s. p. Eliza, died in infancy. Bridget, m. the Rev. Dr. Bulwer, rector of Cawston, &c. county of Nor the present possessors of Katharine, Bawdeswell Hall, and de-, Letitia, Eliza, mesne lands thereto an- Margaret, m. Robert Bircham, esq. Diana, m. the Rev. James Stoughton, shire, and has an only daughter. Colonel L'loyd was succeeded at his decease in 1811, by his eldest son, the present GUY LLOYD, esq. of Croghan House, in the county of Roscommon, and Hackford Vale, in the county of Norfolk, now representative of this ancient family. Arms-1st and 4th for LLOYD ; gu. a cheveron or, and on a chief erm. a canton arg. charged with a double eagle displayed sable, by way of augmentation. The last were the arms of Meuric Llywd, of Llwn-y-maen, in North Wales, of whom is Lloyd, of Croghan; 2nd and 3rd for JEEKS, of Bawdeswell Hall, arg. within a bordure engrailed sable, a bend dexter of the same. Crests-A stag's head couped proper, with the neck surcharged with a laurel chaplet; and on a ducal coronet, or, (by right of descent from the now ducal house of Leinster) a double eagle displayed sable. Mottoes-Over the stag's head, "Spectemur agendo," and over the eagle "Eô altius quô profundius." Estates In the counties of Roscommon, Leitrim, and Sligo, in Ireland; and in the county of Norfolk, England. Seat-Croghan House, in the county of Roscommon. Residence-Hackford Vale, county of Norfolk. |