LESLIE, Anthony 5th Count Leslie, 19th Baron of Balquhain ¹

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  General Notes:

"By a decision in his favour, pronounced by the House of Peers 29th April 1742, Count Anthony Leslie, second son of Count Charles Cajetan Leslie, the son of James Ernest, Count Leslie, the elder son of Count Patrick Leslie, fifteenth Baron of Balquhain, succeeded his cousin Count Ernest Leslie as nineteenth Baron of Balquhain.

By the death of Count Ernest Leslie, eighteenth Baron of Balquhain, without issue, 20th November 1739, the succession to the lands and barony of Balquhain opened to Charles Cajetan, Count Leslie, second son of James Ernest, Count Leslie, as heir of provision under the deeds of entail. But Count Charles Cajetan having succeeded to the family estates in Germany by the death of his elder brother, Count Joseph Leopold, and of his father, Count James Ernest, in 1738, he could not also hold the Balquhain estates in Scotland, as by the deeds of entail the Scotch and German estates could not be united in the same person. He was therefore bound to convey the Balquhain estates to that person who by the entail stood next in the order of succession thereby established. Such being the case, the next heirs of entail in the order of succession preferred their claims, and three processes were brought against Count Charles Cajetan Leslie : one at the instance of Count Joseph Leopold, his eldest son ; another at the instance of his second son, Count Anthony ; and a third at the instance of Sir James Leslie of Pitcaple, as the son and heir-male of his mother, Lady Marjory Leslie, eldest daughter of Count Patrick Leslie, the entailer."

"Count Anthony Leslie, on attaining his majority in 1754, came over to Scotland to take personal possession of the estate of Balquhain."

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