Education
Leslie was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew and the University of Melbourne, where he was a resident of Trinity College.
Leslie was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew and the University of Melbourne, where he was a resident of Trinity College.
He was the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst from 1959 to 1981. He was ordained in 1935 was a curate at Holy Trinity, Coburg in Melbourne before becoming priest in charge at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. He then held incumbencies in Darwin and Alice Springs.
He was Vice-Warden of Street John's College, Morpeth from 1947 to 1952 and then Chaplain of Geelong Grammar School until his ordination to the episcopate in 1959.
He retired in 1981, and was bestowed with an honorary doctorate from Charles Sturt University in 1996.