Margaret Leslie, 8th Countess of Rothes.

About Margaret Leslie, 8th Countess of Rothes

Margaret Leslie was born sometime before 1660. She was the daughter of the previous earl of Rothes, John Leslie, who was the 7th Earl and 1st Duke of Rothes. On 8 October 1674, she married her cousin Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington, making her children thus Hamilton's. Under the terms of her father's earldom, Hamilton took the surname of Leslie, and arranged to pass his own peerage to the second son.