Lessendrum, an old mansion, enlarged and repaired about 1837, in Drumblade parish, Aberdeenshire, 4¾ miles NE of Huntly. Its owner, Mordaunt Fenwick Bisset (b. 1825; suc. 1858), Conservative member for West Somerset since 1880, holds 2682 acres in Aberdeenshire, valued at £2583 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 86, 1876.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)