520 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Lesly, with a proper device and inscription. It may be 

 interesting to add that ]\Ir Lesly (who appears to have 

 changed the spelling of his name to Leslie), afterwards 

 succeeded to the title of Sir John Leslie of Wardes and 

 Findrassie, Bart., a creation of 1625. He died at Edin- 

 burgh on 30th September 1825, in the seventy-fifth year of 

 his age, and was succeeded in the title by his eldest son, 

 the late Sir Charles A. Leslie. 



II. Mr Lewis Gordon (i 792-1 821). — Mr Lewis 

 Gordon entered the service of the Society in 1792, and on 

 the resignation of Mr John Lesly in 1795, he was appointed 

 Depute Secretary. From that period to the year 1821, he 

 discharged the varied official duties of the situations he 

 filled in such a manner as to merit the uniform approbation 

 of every member of the Society. Few officers, in like 

 situations, have evinced so much zeal, united with a sound 

 discretion, in the exercise of their official duties, as Mr 

 Gordon ; and when the state of his health obliged him, in 

 1 82 1, to relinquish the active duties of the office of Depute 

 Secretary of the Society, and to retire to the country, the 

 Directors felt it due to him that the minutes of the Society 

 should bear a permanent record of the sense which the 

 Society entertained of his unremitting and important 

 services. With this view, at the Anniversary Meeting on 

 8th January 1822, Mr Macdonald of St Martins, having 

 obtained the previous hearty concurrence of the Directors, 

 submitted a motion, which was unanimously agreed 

 to, recording thanks to Mr Gordon for the important 

 services rendered by him as Depute Secretary for a period 

 of thirty years, during which he had been in their employ- 

 ment ; and further, that a piece of plate, of the value of sixty 

 guineas, with an inscription commemorative of his meri- 

 torious exertions, be presented to him. Mr Gordon died 

 at Aberdeen on 23rd January 1839, at the age of seventy- 

 two ; and on his demise being brought under the notice of 

 the Directors, they recorded in their minutes the deep 

 sense entertained of the great zeal, assiduity, and attention 

 uniformly evinced by him during the long period of his 

 connection with the Society, which it was known to several 



