- thepeerage.com p18944.htmAlexander Henry Leith, 5th Lord Burgh was born on 27 July 1866.1 He was the son of General Robert William Disney Leith of Glenkindie and Westhall and...
- leithforever.org 100days/day-79The last meeting of the Burgh of Leith Councillors took place in the council chambers as they had been since the creation of the Burgh of Leith Council in 1833.
- aberdeenmedals.com shop.php?code=22309The criteria for award of the medal appears to be only 'Volunteers', who were ordinarily civilian residents of Leith, and who had enrolled / enlisted during the...
- scottishpolicemedals.co.uk scottish-police-force-…Most of the 61 men of Leith Burgh Police who volunteered for the Army and Navy had been discharged by early 1919 and a decision was taken to erect a...
- undiscoveredscotland.co.uk edinburgh/leith/…Leith has been an active port for at least a thousand years. In 1329 control of it was given by Robert I to the Royal Burgh of Edinburgh and since then the two have...
- The laying of the foundation stone was seen as 'an obligation fulfilled' to the former Burgh of Leith by the Corporation of Edinburgh.
- en.wikisource.org wiki/Encyclopædia_Britannica,_…LEITH, a municipal and parliamentary burgh of Midlothian, the chief seaport of the east coast of Scotland, 134 miles north by east of Edinburgh...
- fowlb.org leith-history/1636 A Royal Charter finally established Leith a Burgh of Barony and Edinburgh’s superiority over all of Leith was reaffirmed.
- http://grantonhistory.org maps/boundaries/boundaries_…Ferry Road (then called Queensferry Road) was used as one of the boundaries of Leith, but other ... Leith boundary map showing the whole of the Burgh of Leith.