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LEITH HALL Leith Hall (A.D. 1650) Col. [Colonel] Leith Hay. C.B. [Companion of the Bath] Proprietor
Mr. Maitland Craighall
Doctor Mackie - Insch.
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"Bruce, he was Provost of Aberdeen in 1350, and married the daughter of Donald, twelfth Earl of Marr. In 1358 he went to England as one of the hostages for David, King of Scotland"
"The home of Leith Hall, was built by James Leith, the thirteenth in succession, about the year 1650. His son, John Leith, married Janet, daughter of George, second Lord Banff; by Agnes Falconer, daughter of Alexander, first Lord Halkerton, he died in 1736, and was succeeded by his son, who married Harriet Stewart of Auchluncart, by whom he had three sons; John who died unmarried in 1778, Alexander, who succeeded, in 1789 to his grand Uncle, Andrew Hay of Rannes, and, on the death of his brother, to the estates of Leith Hall and others. He became a General in the army in 1813, and died on the tenth of May, 1838. James, his younger brother, who married the Lady Augusta Forbes, daughter of the Earl of Granard, was created a Grand Cross of the Bath, for distinguished services during the Peninsular War; he was also a Knight Commander of the Portuguese order of the Tower and Sword, a Grand Cordon of the Order of Military Merit of France, a Lieutenant General in the Army, and died at Barbadoes on the Sixteenth of October, 1816, being then Governor of the Colony, and Commander of the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands. The present proprietor of of Leith Hall, is Sir Andrew Leith Hay. of Rannes. The estates of the Family, have been obtained at different periods, Commencing about the year 1300." From the Castellated Architecture of Aberdeenshire. By Sir Andrew Leith Hay of Rannes, K.H. [Knight of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order] F.R.S.E. [Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh] &c. &c. &c."
Since the publication of the above, Sir Andrew Leith Hay died, and was succeeded by his son Colonel Leith Hay C.B. [Companion of the Bath] the present proprietor.

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