STRACHAN, Alexander Advocate in Aberdeen ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

"John Leslie of Balquhain (probably the 8th, his uncle) assigned, 5th April 1574, to James Harvey of Boyndes a letter of provision, dated 27th May 1563, granted by Alexander Strachan, advocate in Aberdeen, to the said John Leslie, upon the lands of Bonnytown, with the brewhouse and croft thereof."

from Historical Records of the Leslie Family volume 3

The History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen endorses this by using this reference in its compendium of advocates:
"Strachan, Alexander. Before 1563 [2]
Note [2] 2 Colonel Leslie's "Historical Records of the Family of Leslie," III., p. 59." ^{1 2}