Career
John David Leslie-Melville, Baron Melville, 1616. Baron Balgonie, 1641. Earl of Melville, Viscount Kirkcaldie, 1690.
[1st Baron Melville was Ambassador to England to plead for the life of Queen Mary of Scots, 1587. 1st Earl of Leven was a very distinguished soldier, serving in Holland and.becoming a field - marshal of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. He took part in the Civil War, and contributed to the Parliamentary victory at Marston Moor, 1644.
But afterwards worked for the Restoration. 2nd Earl Melville inherited as 3rd Earl Leven.1.