General David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark was a Scottish army officer. During the Thirty Years' War, he joined in the Swedish Army in 1630 and served under Alexander Leslie. Returning to Scotland in the f

Clan Leslie is a Lowland Scottish clan. The progenitor of the clan, Bartolf, was a nobleman from Hungary, who came to Scotland in 1067. He built a castle at Leslie, from which the clan name derives.