Malcolm Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes

Malcolm George Dyer-Edwardes Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes (1902 – 1975) was a Scottish nobleman, and the head of Clan Leslie.[1]

He was the son of Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes and his wife Noël Dyer-Edwardes, a Titanic survivor. He was brought up at Leslie House until the outbreak of the first World War, when the family moved to London.

On 17 July 1926, he married Beryl Dugdale, daughter of Lionel Dugdale of Crathorne, a former High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and sister of Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne.

They had three children:

He worked as Chairman of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society.[3]

He succeeded as the 20th Earl of Rothes on the death of his father in 1927. He served as a Representative Peer for Scotland until this system was abolished.[4]

The Earl died on 7 May 1975.[5] The Rothes Chair in Preventive Ophthalmology was established at London University in his memory in 1977.

References

  1. ↑ "Malcolm, 20th Earl of Rothes (1902-1975)". Clan Leslie Trust.
  2. ↑ "Deaths: MACKWORTH-YOUNG". Daily Telegraph. January 2011.
  3. ↑ "Malcolm George Dyer-Edwardes Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes". National Portrait Gallery, London.
  4. ↑ "The Leslie Story". Clan Leslie Trust.
  5. ↑ "Our Former Clan Chief". Clan Leslie.
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