LESLE, DAVID [SSNE 3080]

Surname

LESLE, LESLER

First name

DAVID

Title/rank

ENSIGN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

STUDENT

Education

UNIVERSITY

Text source

David Lesle was enrolled at Lund University in 1701 along with his brother Samuel [SSNE 3082]. Fischer footnotes that the name is sometimes written Lesler, but never Leslie. He also adds that Scottish origins are probable but not established.

P. Wilner, Lunds Universitets Matrikel 1667-1732, 1984, T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), Supplement, pp.215-267.

Service record

SWEDEN, LUND

Arrived 1630-01-01, as ENSIGN

Departed 1630-12-31, as ENSIGN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY