{"id":292,"date":"2013-10-08T13:25:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?p=292"},"modified":"2015-07-05T13:52:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T13:52:44","slug":"charles-arthur-oneill-leith-hay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Charles Arthur O&#8217;Neill Leith-Hay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/chaz-a-on-LH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-295 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/chaz-a-on-LH.jpg\" alt=\"chaz a on LH\" width=\"143\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>\u00a0The Last Laird of Rannes and Leith Hall and male line representer of the Leith-Hay family&#8217;s life was also penned down by his mother Henrietta in the 1957 book on the main line as was his father&#8217;s account and will be left untouched.<\/p>\n<p>The family book passed down listing the chiefs of the Leith and later Leith-Hay family from the 14th Century onwards ends in the words <em>&#8220;So came to an end the main line of the ancient family of Leith Hall. It seemed like a bright light on the horizon being extinguished \u00a0which never could be lit again.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>To a grieving mother the loss of an only son and child would have been something that one would never fully make a recovery from despite the passing of time. The Leith Hall family&#8217;s demise in 1939 was, however, incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>A section on Charles, 2nd Lieut. R. A., b. 1918, died 1939 is accessible <a href=\"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/?page_id=701\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will only focus on the newspaper cuttings of the time.<\/p>\n<p>A good source on Charles is also credited to the work by J Grant and sourced at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinnethmont.co.uk\/1939-1945_files\/chas-leith-hay.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kinnethmont.co.uk\/1939-1945_files\/chas-leith-hay.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Last Laird of Rannes and Leith Hall and male line representer of the Leith-Hay family&#8217;s life was also penned down by his mother Henrietta in the 1957 book on the main line as was his father&#8217;s account and will be left untouched. The family book passed down listing the chiefs of the Leith and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,3],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charles-arthur-oneill-leith-hay","tag-leith-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leith-hay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}