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	Sir John Leslie - LoveToKnow 1911
		SIR JOHN LESLIE (1766-1832), Scottish mathematician and physicist, was born of humble parentage at Largo, Fifeshire, on the 16th of April 1766, and received his early education there and at Leven.
		In 1805 he was elected to succeed John Playfair in the chair of mathematics at Edinburgh, not, however, without violent though unsuccessful opposition on the part of a narrow-minded clerical party who accused him of heresy in something he had said as to the "unsophisticated notions of mankind" about the relation of cause and effect.
		Leslie's main contributions to physics were made by the help of the "differential thermometer," an instrument whose invention was contested with him by Count Rumford.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_John_Leslie (326 words)

	Significant Scots - John Leslie
		LESLIE, (SIR) JOHN, professor of natural philosophy in the university of Edinburgh, and distinguished by his valuable writings and discoveries, was born at the kirk-town of Largo, in Fife, on the 16th of April, 1766.
		His father, Robert Leslie, by profession a joiner and cabinet-maker, and originally from the neighbourhood of St Andrews, was a much respected and worthy man, and seems, in point of education and general attainments, to have been superior to the majority of persons in his station at that period.
		Mr Leslie thus distinguished himself by his acquirements, when, early in 1805, in consequence of the translation of professor Playfair from the chair of mathematics to that of natural philosophy in the university of Edinburgh, the former became vacant, and the subject of this memoir appeared as a candidate for the situation.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/leslie_john2.htm (4056 words)

	John Leslie (physicist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir John Leslie (April 10, 1766 - November 3, 1832) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat.
		In 1805 he was elected to Succeed John Playfair in the chair of mathematics at Edinburgh, not, however, without violent though unsuccessful opposition on the part of a narrow-minded clerical party who accused him of heresy in something he had said as to the unsophisticated notions of mankind about the relation of cause and effect.
		Leslie's main contributions to physics were made by the help of the differential thermometer, an instrument whose invention was contested with him by Count Rumford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Leslie_(physicist) (515 words)

	John Leslie
		Sir John Leslie was a Professor of Natural Philosophy (as Science was known in those days) in the University of Edinburgh.
		Involved in experimental research, Sir John, in 1804, wrote Inquiry into Heat, and, in 1810, he "succeeded in freezing water under the air pump." He invented such instruments as the differential thermometer, the hygrometer, the photometer, the pyroscope, the atmometer and the aethrioscope.
		Sir John travelled both on the continent and in America and, apparently, he had an interest in the frigid parts of our northern hemisphere.
	fys.kuleuven.be /pradem/fysici/Leslie.htm (96 words)

	FORCES - JAMES LEAVEY'S CORNER - Looking for Castle Leslie
		Her son, Charles Powell Leslie III was ambitious on a grand scale, and wanted to build a nine storied gothic tower in the middle of the lake reachable only by Venetian gondolas.
		Sir John Leslie 2nd Baronet married the delightful Leonie Jerome, whose stunning elder sister, Jenny, married Lord Randolph Churchill.
		Sir John was succeeded by Sir Shane Leslie 3rd Baronet, the noted Irish speaker, author, poet and ardent nationalist who became a Catholic and stood as Nationalist candidate for Derry in the 1910 election, losing by a mere 59 votes to the Duke of Abercorn.
	www.forces.org /writers/james/files/castle.htm (1137 words)

	Shane Leslie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir John Randolph Leslie (September 24, 1885 – August 1971), third baronet, was an Irish diplomat and writer, took the name Shane.
		During the war he was in a British Ambulance Corps, until invalided out; he was then sent to Washington to help the British Ambassador, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, obtain American intervention in the war in the aftermath of the failed 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin and the execution of its leaders.
		In the 1918 election the Irish Parliamentary Party lost massively to Sinn Féin, putting an end to Shane Leslie's political career, but as the cousin of Winston Churchill he remained a primary witness to much that was said and done outside the official record during the negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shane_Leslie (252 words)

	Great Canadian Explorers: Sir John Franklin
		One of the most provocative, compelling books about Sir John Franklin's third and final Arctic expedition (1845-48), this book reads like a detective story.
		That lead poisoning killed other sailors on the expedition is not known, but the theory is tempting and has invited commentary from other northern scholars of this famous expedition.
		Based on a thorough knowledge of the histories and narratives of Arctic travel in the mid- and late-nineteenth centuries, author Neatby has painstakingly pieced together the story.
	www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/multimedia/explorers/franklin.html (337 words)

	History
		Bishop John Leslie was known as the 'fighting bishop' and defeated Cromwell's forces at the Battle Of Raphoe.
		Sir John Leslie 2nd Baronet was the only son of five children the other four being girls.
		Sir Shane Leslie 3rd Baronet, Irish Speaker, author, poet and ardent nationalist became a Catholic and stood as Nationalist candidate for Derry in the 1910 election losing by a mere 59 votes to the Duke of Abercorn.
	www.castleleslie.com /?id=146 (1839 words)

	Obituary of John Scott Russell
		John Scott Russell, according to Engineering, was the eldest son of the Rev. David Russell, a Scottish clergyman.
		He had attained to such a proficiency in the knowledge of the natural sciences that on the death of Sir John Leslie, Professor of Natural Philosophy in Edinburgh, in 1832, the young Scott Russell, though then only 24 years of age, was elected to fill the vacancy temporarily, pending the election of a permanent professor.
		The Committee consisted of Sir John Robinson, secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Mr.
	members.cox.net /ggtext/johnscottrussell1809_obit.html (970 words)

	Castles Page 3 of Clan Leslie Society of Australia and New Zealand
		Agnes Leslie, one of these children, was my mother and it was because of the memory of her childhood at Balnamore that I became interested in the history of Leslie Hill.
		George Leslie of Crichie, Aberdeenshire was the second son of William 4th Baron of Wardis and his wife, Janet Innes of the Innermarkie family, and their eldest son, John, was the founder of the Leslie's of Glaslough.
		John's health was not very robust from spending five years as a prisoner of war and he made the Estate over to his younger sister Anita, the famous author.
	www.clanleslie.org /Castles3.html (1400 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
		The plot fell apart with Leslie's confessions in 1571 that sent him to prison and Norfolk to be executed for treason.
		When we look at the dates of Sir John Leslie's life, it comes as a surprise to discover that he created artificial ice as early as the beginning of the 18th century.
		Leslie, however, remained on the side of Parliament, playing a leading role in the successful war against the forces of the king, who surrendered to him at Newark in 1646.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/l1.html (3585 words)

	leslie.htm
		Clearly, Leslie was by this stage anxious to extricate himself honourably from Co. Monaghan elections, as he sought (unsuccessfully) to be raised to the peerage and thus rendered ineligible for further election contests and expenditure.
		Sir John's delivery was slow but the words well chosen, effective, and compelling of respect; with much shrewd commonsense and an avoidance of that violent reactionary "talk" which did such harm to the landlords' cause.
		Leslie was a county member of parliament and after the Union, needing to reside in London during the parliamentary session, he disposed of his Dublin town house.
	www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/leslie.htm (16444 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Wedding venue with history
		Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills are to marry on Tuesday, with the world's media attention focused on an Irish castle in a small village.
		Supposedly descended from Attila the Hun, the Leslie family history is filled with a cast including fighting bishops, Irish nationalists, the future Duke of Wellington and the chief justice of Samoa.
		The octogenarian fourth baronet Sir John Leslie, who lived in Rome for four decades before returning to live in the castle in 1994, is known in Ireland for his love of disco-dancing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2036281.stm (551 words)

	Leslie Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Leslie had a strong sense of the connection between architecture, on the one hand, and, on the other, art and science.
		Leslie's modesty was evident not just in his manner - which, combined with a certain shyness, made him, perhaps, appear somewhat forbidding - but also in his perception of the architect's role.
		Leslie was also one of the judges of the Sydney opera house competition.
	www.jesus.cam.ac.uk /college/memoriam/martin.html (2281 words)

	MACCA-News: Paul & Heather Wedding Plans - UPDATES (all day) - Jun. 6, 2002 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sir John, the fourth baronet of Glaslough, is an eccentric character known as the "Barking Baronet" in the little village.
		Sir Paul and Ms Mills may receive an unexpected visitor on their wedding night if there is any truth to the tales about the castle.
		Sir John Leslie: "We are told vaguely it is next Tuesday like the papers say, but it is all secret, I have to keep it dead secret" Gerry McQuaid, 31, who lives next to the castle, said: "The whole site has been closed down for about two weeks now.
	www.macca-central.com /macca-news/MoreNews.cfm?ID=693 (3085 words)

	Country Life : Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The house is still in the occupation of the Leslie family, and Sammy Leslie, with her husband Ultan Bannon, runs a low-key country house hotel business which has given the castle a viable future.
		Sir John and his wife, Lady Constance, lived in Kensington and were friends ofMillais and Thackeray, although he fell out with Ruskin over his opinion of Lousia, Lady Waterford's, painting style which Sir John admired.
		According to Sir Jack Leslie it was bought from the presbytery of Sta Maria Novella in Florence and had previously been a frame for a religious picture.
	www.countrylife.co.uk /living/gardened/leslie.php (985 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sir John Randolph Leslie ('Shane'), third baronet, of Glaslough, county Monaghan, was the eldest of four sons born to Sir John Leslie, second baronet, and his wife, Léonie Blanche, youngest daughter of Leonard Jerome of New York.
		Leslie was also the first cousin of (Sir) Winston Churchill, whose mother Jennie Jerome Churchill was a sister of Leslie's mother.
		Presumably this volume was given to Leslie by Cockran and the letter added to it by Leslie from his family archive.
	www.peter-harrington-books.com /phbooks/bookstore.nsf/x/E262A44CDF278B9A80257127003F3475?opendocument (451 words)

	CNN.com - Activity fuels Beatle wedding rumours - June 7, 2002
		Sir Paul has said that he and fiancé Heather Mills would get married "this summer," but the former Beatle has kept fans and reporters guessing, refusing to name the time and place.
		Leslie said marquees were being set up in the grounds, lighting effects were being put in the trees and food had been arriving at the castle in the last few days.
		Sir John Leslie: "We are told vaguely it is next Tuesday like the papers say, but it is all secret, I have to keep it dead secret"
	edition.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/06/mccartney (933 words)

	References for Leslie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sir John Leslie : 1766-1832, A study of the Pursuit of the Exact Sciences in the Scottish Enlightenment (Harvard, 1967).
		Obituary of Sir John Leslie, Leybourn's Mathematical Repository 1 (1803-06), 77-78.
		R G Olson, Count Rumford, Sir John Leslie, and the study of the nature and propagation of heat at the beginning of the
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/References/Leslie.html (125 words)

	CNN.com - Media on McCartney mystery tour - June 7, 2002
		Sir John Leslie, uncle of the owner of Castle Leslie, a hotel in County Monaghan bordering Northern Ireland, told reporters a wedding reception for the couple could be held on Tuesday.
		McCartney, 59, and Mills, 34 -- a model who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident nine years ago -- met at a charity function, where she was raising money to oppose the use of land mines.
		Sceptics have suggested that the activity at Castle Leslie might be an elaborate ploy to divert the world's attention, allowing the couple to tie the knot in private.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/07/mccartney/index.html (652 words)

	Castle Leslie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Anita Leslie was the eldest child of Sir Shane and Marjorie Leslie.
		It was Sir John Leslie's room until his death in 1944 where he was well looked after by Wells (his `Jeeves')....
		LIONEL LESLIE was the youngest of four brothers,, Shane, Seymour Norman and Lionel, sons of Sir John, the second baronet, and his wife, Lady Leonie Leslie.
	www.celticcastles.com /castles/leslie/html/bedroom_garden.htm (416 words)

	Janus: "The Shane Leslie-Godfrey Faussett Archive"
		John Randolph [Shane] Leslie was born on 24 September 1885 at Stratford House, 11 Granville Place, in London, the eldest of the four sons of Sir John Leslie, second baronet (1857-1944), and his wife, Léonie Blanche (1857-1943), pianist, youngest daughter of Leonard Jerome of New York, and sister of Lady Randolph Churchill.
		Leslie had a profound interest in the Royal Navy and a close friendship with 1st Lord Beatty, Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet (1916-1919) and First Sea Lord (1919-1927).
		Leslie was selected as the biographer of Lord Beatty, who died in 1936, and he did so much work on the project that by 1948 he was able to tell a correspondent that it was completed.
	janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/SLGF (916 words)

	University of Delaware: GEORGE MOORE LETTERS TO LADY LEONIE LESLIE
		Lady Leslie's son, Sir John Randolph (Shane) Leslie, was born on September 24, 1885, at Castle Leslie, County Monaghan, Ireland.
		During World War I, Leslie was assigned to the British Ambulance Corps but on his way to the Dardanelles, he became ill. He was transferred to a military hospital in Malta, where he wrote his first autobiographical work, The End of a Chapter published in 1916.
		In one lengthy letter to Lady Leslie, Moore commented regarding her son, Sir Shane Leslie, who had converted to Catholicism and become an ardent proponent of Irish nationalism.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/moore_g.htm (1157 words)

	Desmond Leslie dies in France at 79 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His wife, Ms Helen Strong, his six children, sons-in-law, his older brother Sir John Leslie and Ms Jennifer Fibbs, with whom he had a daughter, were with him at the time of his death in hospital in Antibes.
		Mr Leslie was the second son of Sir Shane Leslie, of Castle Leslie, Glaslough, Co Monaghan.
		Mr Leslie once famously punched the BBC drama critic Bernard Levin on the nose during the TV programme That Was The Week That Was.
	www.arpnet.it /ufo/leslie.htm (231 words)

	thePeerage.com - Robert Thompson Crawshay and others
		She was the daughter of Sir John Leslie, 1st Bt.
		He was the son of Sir John Leslie, 2nd Bt.
		She married Sir John Randolph Shane Leslie, 3rd Bt.
	www.thepeerage.com /p5478.htm (540 words)

	Reuben Leslie, Jr.'s "Leslie Family History Resources"
		Leslie is one of Scotland's oldest families, tracing its origins to Bartholomew, Hungarian-born chamberlain to Queen Margaret who, according to legend, married Beatrix, sister of King Malcolm III, was knighted, and acquired Leslie lands in Aberdeenshire and elsewhere in 1070.
		Leslie castles and great houses in Scotland and Ireland still bear the name, and all are associated with descendants of Bartholomew.
		Clan Leslie Society (CLS) was founded in 1978 as the American Clan Leslie Society by Alexander Leslie Klieforth at the request of the Earl of Rothes, Leslie Clan Chief.
	www.io.com /~rlsd/leslie.htm (1979 words)

	thePeerage.com - David Lindsay and others
		She and Sir John Leslie were divorced on 9 March 1597/98 on account of his adultery.
		She married, secondly, Sir James Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour, Baron of Glenawley, son of Sir James Balfour and Margaret Balfour, after 1599.
		She married Sir James Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour, Baron of Glenawley, son of Sir James Balfour and Margaret Balfour, before 1627.
	www.thepeerage.com /p6990.htm (761 words)

	Overview of Sir John Leslie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Born in Largo (Fife), Leslie was educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
		He published widely, his most notable work being An Experimental Inquiry into Heat (1804), but was also a prodigious inventor, inventing the pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope, together with a differential thermometer, a hygrometer, a photometer.
		Leslie lived for a time at No. 62 Queen Street in Edinburgh's New Town.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst835.html (172 words)

	Sir Leslie Martin ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		A marvel of artistry and engineering, the sculpture is an elegant, airy structure of welded, sandblasted stainless-steel tubes, bound at the joints by thick...
		A Painting and A Sculpture, Martin Creed and John Nixon, curated by Nicholas Chambers AND A Painting and A Photograph, Reuben Keehan and Darren Sylvester, curated by Nicholas Chambers
		A Painting and A Sculpture is one of a series of exhibitions Chambers has developed, wherein very established artists are approached with a view to exhibiting their work not in a museum or biennial but in a more local context such as artist-r...
	www.wwar.com /masters/m/martin-sir_leslie.html (1657 words)

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