LESLIE, GEORGE [SSNE 2922]
- Surname
- LESLIE
- First name
- GEORGE
- Title/rank
- COLONEL AND COMMANDANT
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Social status
- OFFICER
Text source
George Leslie served in the Narke Varmland's regiment between 1626-9. He began as an ensign but was promoted within a year. By 1628 he also acted as quartermaster for the regiment. In 1630 he was captain in his half-brother's regiment, Alexander Leslie [SSNE 1], and a lieutenant colonel by 1632. In December 1633 the town of Kitzingen (Under Franconia) complained about two companies of Scots of King's regiment, commanded by George Leslie. In 1637 he became colonel of an infantry regiment in Nyenburg and later became Governor of Vechta in Oldenburg around 1638. He died in September 1638. It is interesting that William Forbes recorded in his Memorial that George Leslie became a colonel already in 1625, but this must surely have been an error. This George Leslie is probably also the same as [SSNE 217] .
R. Monro, His Expedition with the worthy Scots regiment called Mackeyes (2 vols., London, 1632), II, List of the Scottish Officers in Chief; C.O. Nordensvan, (ed.), Värmlands Regementes [Närkes och Värmlands Regementes] Historia: Andra Delen, Personal Historia (Stockholm, 1911), 31; Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1626/1,7,8,10; 1627/11-13; 1628/7,14; 1629/8,10,12; 1630/35,36,38; 1631/22-25; T. Fischer, The Scots in Germany (Edinburgh, 1902); Swedish Riksarkiv, P. Sondén, Militärachefer i svenska arméen och deras skrivelser; Sir William Fraser, Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and Leslies, Earls of Leven, vol. 1, p.38; Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage (9 vols., Edinburgh, 1904-1914), V, 373; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.18; Archives of the town of Kitzingen, Ratsakten 318, fol. 92-100: town to the government of Ansbach, 13 December 1633. Thanks to Dr Bernd Warlich for this archival reference and passing on information from Detlev PLEISS, Das Kriegstagebuch des schwedischen Offiziers William Forbes: Von seiner Landung an der Unterelbe im Sommer 1634 bis zu seiner Rückkehr nach Stade im Winter 1649/50, in: Stader Jahrbuch Neue Folge 85, (1995), p.138.
Service record
- SWEDEN, ALEXANDER LESLIE, NARKE OCH VARMLAND
- Arrived 1626-01-01, as ENSIGN
- Departed 1632-12-31, as LIEUTENANT COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, NYENBURG INFANTRY REGIMENT
- Arrived 1637-01-01, as COLONEL
- Departed 1637-12-31, as COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, VECHTA IN OLDENBURG
- Arrived 1638-01-01, as COMMANDANT
- Departed 1638-12-31, as COMMANDANT
- Capacity OFFICER AND COMMANDANT, purpose MILITARY