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See also:LEVEN AND See also:MELVILLE, EARLS OF . The See also:family of Melville which now holds these two earldoms is descended' from See also:Sir See also:John Melville of Raith in Fifeshire. Sir John, who was a member of the reforming party in See also:Scotland, was put to See also:death for high See also:treason on the 13th of See also:December 1548; he See also:left with other See also:children a son See also:Robert (1527-1621), who in 1616 was created a See also:lord of See also:parliament as Lord Melville of Monymaill. Before his See also:elevation to the Scottish See also:peerage Melville had been a stout See also:partisan of See also:Mary, See also:queen of Scots, whom he represented at the See also:English See also:court, and he had filled several important offices in Scotland under her son See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James VI. The See also:fourth holder of the lordship of Melville was See also:George (c. 1634-1707), a son of John, the 3rd lord (d. 1643), and a descendant of Sir John Melville. Implicated in the See also:Rye See also:House See also:plot against See also:Charles II., George took See also:refuge in the See also:Netherlands in 1683, but he returned to See also:England after the revolution of 1688 and was appointed secretary for Scotland by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III. in 1689, being created See also:earl of Melville in the following See also:year. He was made See also:president of the Scottish privy See also:council in 1696, but he was deprived of his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office when See also:Anne became queen in 1702, and he died on the 20th of May 1707. His son See also:David, 2nd earl of Melville (1660-1728), fled to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland with his See also:father in 1683; after serving in the See also:army of the elector of See also:Brandenburg he accompanied William of See also:Orange to England in 1685. At the See also:head of a See also:regiment raised by himself he fought for William at See also:Killiecrankie and elsewhere, and as commanderin-See also:chief of the troops in Scotland he dealt promptly and effectively with the attempted Jacobite rising of T708. In 1712, however, his office was taken from hint and he (lied on the 6th of See also:June 172S.
See also:Alexander See also:Leslie, 1st earl of Leven (q.v.), was succeeded in his earldom by his See also:grandson Alexander, who died without sonsin See also:July 1664. The younger Alexander's two daughters were then in turn countesses of Leven in their own right; and after the death of the second of these two ladies in 1676 a dispute arose over the See also:succession to the earldom between John Leslie, earl (afterwards See also:duke) of See also:Rothes, and David Melville, 2nd earl of Melville, mentioned above. In 1681, however, Rothes died, and Melville, who was a See also:great-grandson of the 1st earl of Leven, assumed the See also:title, calling himself earl of Leven and Melville after he succeeded his father as earl of Melville in May 1707. Since 18o5 the family has See also:borne the name of Leslie-Melville. In 1906 John David Leslie-Melville (b. 1886) became 12th earl of Leven and 11th earl of Melville.
See Sir W. See also:Fraser, The Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and the Leslies, Earls of Leven (1890); and the Leven and Melville Papers, edited by the Hon. W. H. Leslie-Melville for the See also:Bannatyne See also:Club (1843).
End of Article: LEVEN AND MELVILLE, EARLS OF
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