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Authorised form of nameLeslie; John (1759 - 1824)
Dates1759 - 1824
Date of birth20 November 1759
OccupationSoldier
ActivityCareer:
Ensign, 1st Regiment Foot Guards (1778); Captain (1781); served in Flanders (1793, 1794); General (1819)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election22/01/1807
RelationshipsMarried (13 September 1816) Jane Cuming and assumed the name of Cuming
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
References:
J B Morrell, 'Professors Robison and Playfair, and the Theophobia Gallica: Natural Philosophy, Religion and Politics in Edinburgh, 1789-1815' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 43-63
David F Larder, 'Thomas Thomson's Activities in Edinburgh, 1791-1811' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 295-304
CodeNA8067
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MC/1/71Letter from Davies Gilbert, Treasurer of the Royal Society, East Bourne, to the Royal Society 19 July 1821
AP/1/2/3Unpublished diagram, glass tube and tumbler by [John Leslie][early 19th century]
AP/1/2/2Unpublished diagram, unglazed cup by [John Leslie][early 19th century]
AP/1/2/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Concise account of two new hygrometers' by [John Leslie][early 19th century]
AP/1/2Unpublished paper, 'Concise account of two new hygrometers' by [John Leslie][early 19th century]
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