Malcolm George Dyer-Edwardes Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes (8 February 1902 – 17 May 1975) was a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

nobleman, and the head of Clan Leslie. He was the

Earl of Rothes Earl of Rothes (pronounced "''Roth''-is") is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1458 for George Leslie, 1st Lord Leslie. He had already been created Lord Leslie in 1445, also in the Peerage of Scotland. His grandson, the thir ...

from 1927 until 1975, following the death of his father,

Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes (13 July 1877 – 29 March 1927) was a Scottish soldier and representative peer. Background Norman Leslie was the son of Martin Leslie Leslie (born Martin Leslie Haworth) and Georgina Frances , daughter ...

Early life

Malcolm George Dyer-Edwardes Leslie was born on 8 February 1902 in

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. His father was

, a Scottish nobleman. His mother was

Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes Lucy Noël Martha Leslie, Countess of Rothes (''née'' Dyer-Edwardes; 25 December 1878 – 12 September 1956) was a British philanthropist and social leader. She was seen as a heroine of the ''Titanic'' disaster, famous for taking the tiller ...

, who not only survived the '' Titanic'' disaster, but took the tiller of a lifeboat and helped row survivors to the '' RMS Carpathia''.

Marriage and children

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 Thomas Lionel Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne, (20 July 1897 – 26 March 1977), known as Sir Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baronet from 1945 to 1959, was a British Conservative Party politician. He resigned as a government minister over the Crichel Down ...

. They had three children: * Lady Jean Leslie (1927–2017). Married in 1949 to Roderick Mackenzie. * Lady Evelyn Leslie (1929–2011). Married in 1949 to Sir Gerard William Mackworth-Young. * Ian Lionel Malcolm Leslie, 21st Earl of Rothes (1932–2005). Married in 1955 to Marigold Evans-Bevan. His son succeeded him in 1975 as the Earl of Rothes.

Career

He worked as Chairman of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society. He succeeded as the 20th Earl of Rothes on the death of his father in 1927. He served as a

Representative Peer In the United Kingdom, representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords. Until 1999, all members of the Peerage of England held the right to ...

for Scotland until this system was abolished.

Death and legacy

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

References

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