Background
The son of the John Thornton Leslie-Melville, 9th Earl of Leven and his second wife, Sophia, daughter of Henry Thornton Member of Parliament, he was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.
The son of the John Thornton Leslie-Melville, 9th Earl of Leven and his second wife, Sophia, daughter of Henry Thornton Member of Parliament, he was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.
Christ Church; Eton College.
He succeeded his half-brother Alexander Leslie-Melville, 10th Earl of Leven in 1889. He was a Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and of the Bank of England. Director of the Bank of England 1884-1894.
He was Deputy Lieutenant for the City of London.
He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1902 and a Knight of the Thistle in 1905. Honorary John David Leslie-Melville, 12th Earl of Leven,
Honorary Archibald Alexander Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven,
Captain Honorary David William Leslie-Melville Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire (23 May 1892 – 10 December 1938),
Lieutenant Colonel Ian Leslie-Melville (14 August 1894 – 10 February 1967),
Lady Constance Betty Leslie-Melville (7 August 1888 – 13 August 1922).