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Description: | 1/2 portrait of Bishop John Leslie, facing right, in ovate mount in square frame. He has short light brown hair, moustache and beard and is wearing a black 'cardinal' bonnet, jacket, buttoned at front with red buttons. Coat of arms top left, long inscription top right. Copy (?) Leslie 1527-1596 Professor Canon Law at Kings in 1556 1558-9, Vicar General Aberdeen, Queen Mary's secretary, Bishop of Ross, Location 1908 KC Senatus Room.
"Leslie was educated at King's College and Paris. A Canonist at King's in 1556 and 1558-9 he was secretary to Mary Queen of Scots and a staunch defender of King's College's Catholic identity in the 1560's. One of a large number of images relating to the Stuart dynasty in general in the university collection. These images attest to Stuart Royal patronage of King's College (the College was visited by James V in 1541 while Leslie was a student) and later to the prolonged Jacobite sympathies of both King's and Marischal Colleges."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541 | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1850 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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